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Penny Ewles-Bergeron

@abroadbrush.bsky.social
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Requires art, music, dance, books, cats, gardening, history, politics, good food and kindness to thrive. Lived in Dublin, Naples and Lisbon, now back in Blighty. No unsolicited DMs, please.

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Penny Ewles-Bergeron @abroadbrush.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#BigTech's data centres use as much power as millions of homes and guzzle our water. We need basic rules: ⚡ 100% clean power 💧 Zero water waste 🗣️ Community consent Sign Foxglove's petition to stop data centres harming our communities and environment now. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...
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Ban data centres that harm our communities and climate
Big Tech’s giant data centres swallow as much power as millions of homes, guzzle our water, and risk driving up our energy bills - all with zero limits. We need basic rules: ⚡ 100% clean power 💧 Ze...
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Penny Ewles-Bergeron @abroadbrush.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Album cover.
Two black cats in kitchen, one in foreground on chair, the other looking back resentfully from the table.
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Jaundiced Brains @johnnymains.co.uk · 08/10/2026
"La géante" - Charrel Menard Marie (2024)
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Jaundiced Brains @johnnymains.co.uk · 08/10/2026
Today is World Octopus Day! Here are ten artworks about that most alien of creatures, and the absolute best of them as well! First up: "The Blue Ring Octopus" - Kannika Jansuwan (2023)
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
...and another #ReformCriminal
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Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Petition for Jamelle Bouie to replace all headline writers in the US.
YouTube. Video with title

I cannot emphasize enough that the president has pudding for brains
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want."
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K Wilde @flowerchildob1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It'll surely be quite a doozy of a plan, given it's taken over 10 years to come up with it.
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Lynn @lynnf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We should destroy it the moment we have power again. Besides the obvious symbolism, it will just turn into a .su style defunct cybercrime cesspit otherwise.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 08/10/2026
The president hasn’t stopped those taxpayer-funded advertisements, despite promising he would. trib.al/GzSDmbC
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Trump Is Still Airing Campaign Ads With Your Money by the Way
The president hasn’t stopped those taxpayer-funded advertisements, despite promising he would.
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Penny Ewles-Bergeron @abroadbrush.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“I can do whatever I want.” The world is tired of this.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
She's so crooked, it's comic: 'Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn’t leave a paper trail. “It
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Penny Ewles-Bergeron @abroadbrush.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/o...
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Choral evensong has been on our airwaves for 100 years today. Long may this vibrant, thriving art form continue | Jonathan Davies
One hundred years since the BBC first broadcast choral evensong, MP and former chorister Jonathan Davies hymns a beautiful and empowering collective experience that we should praise – and protect
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Penny Ewles-Bergeron @abroadbrush.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Excellent analysis by @rafaelbehr.bsky.social The solar power analogy is apt.
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Zack Polanski had the chance to show real leadership. He blew it | Rafael Behr
A toxic debate over anti-Zionism leaves the Green leader looking like a passenger in the movement that carried him to the top, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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Lucy Shields @lucyrshields.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm working with Stage4Beverley festival again this year, and one of my favourite things about the festival is how it mixes music with poetry. With Michael Rosen AND Michael Morpurgo joining us this year, it's shaping up to be a good'un!
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Folk on Foot @folkonfoot.com · 06/10/2026
Finally, we've got a new number 1 in this month's chart, with "Running Round The Sun" by Jamie Webster. Here's a taster: youtu.be/5X2YsdEw6U0?...
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Jamie Webster - Turning Point (Official)
YouTube video by JamieWebsterVEVO
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Folk on Foot @folkonfoot.com · 06/10/2026
That's all for this month! Thanks to everyone who tuned in to watch the Chart Show, and if you missed it, you can still catch up here... youtu.be/t2MpkXYLKv8 Enjoyed the show? Please support us to make more shows like this in the future! Thank you. www.folkonfoot.com/support-us
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Official Folk Albums Chart Show—6th October 2026
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Folk on Foot @folkonfoot.com · 06/10/2026
This month’s Chart Show features music from @spellsongs.bsky.social, The Mary Wallopers, Elanor Moss, Rusty Shackle, Gilroy Mere, Colin Stetson and Brìghde Chaimbeul, Andy Irvine and Blind Yeo. Plus, get a preview of the next episode of Folk on Foot! ▶️ Watch from 7pm BST: youtu.be/t2MpkXYLKv8
Photo of Spell Songs, with text over the top which says 'Folk on Foot presents the Official Folk Albums Chart Show, compiled by Official Charts, 6th October 2026'.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
notable -- Fox News hasn't mentioned Trump's transphobic attack on Annie Andrews a single time. Not once. And they cover a lot of his Truth Social posts. Almost like they're trying to protect their audience from learning the true depth of his depravity.
notable -- Fox News hasn't mentioned Trump's transphobic attack on Annie Andrews a single time. Not once. And they cover a lot of his Truth Social posts.

Almost like they're trying to protect their audience from learning the true depth of his depravity.
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Penny Ewles-Bergeron @abroadbrush.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Voynich unbound. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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A medieval manuscript has confounded scholars for centuries. Have they been reading it wrong all this time?
Researchers argue incorrect binding of Voynich manuscript radically changes ideas about its drawings and indecipherable text
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Folk on Foot @folkonfoot.com · 28/09/2026
Nancy Kerr recalls her time living on a barge on the Kennet and Avon Canal, as we revisit this classic episode of Folk on Foot from 2019. 🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/65ee99 @nancyannfolk.bsky.social
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Matthew Bannister @matthewbannister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Had a wonderful time making this celebration of choral evensong for Radio 3 with the brilliant @natalie-steed.bsky.social Part 2 in Bristol tomorrow. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The Essay - Towards Evensong - Dean: Abi Thompson, Sheffield Cathedral - BBC Sounds
Celebrating a hundred years of the BBC’s broadcasting of Choral Evensong.
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Penny Ewles-Bergeron @abroadbrush.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This one’s really mad. Jim has a vast collection of films he’s collected, some never seen. We appreciate the nudge to see this one.
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Penny Ewles-Bergeron @abroadbrush.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oooer. Heavy Morandi influence here.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 05/10/2026
today's nearly random theater photo: Lillian Gish and birthday girl Glynis Johns in the 1963 NYC revival of GBS's Too True to Be Good
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Penny Ewles-Bergeron @abroadbrush.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@bcdreyer.social Inspired by your list of horror films, we are watching… My OH loved the list.
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Penny Ewles-Bergeron @abroadbrush.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘If it’s too slick, it looks like a fashion mag’: Peter Zumthor on his £110m rammed concrete gallery
It is one of the world’s finest collections, full of Monets, Miros and Picassos. But is the great Swiss architect’s extension for the Beyeler Foundation a worthy addition? Or is it a bit luxury boutiq...
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Penny Ewles-Bergeron @abroadbrush.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
An astonishing body of work by such an exemplary team. The nation should be grateful. We certainly were, watching.
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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And that was it. I had a long list of other discoveries for Series 6 but they closed BBC4 for new series. Endless thanks to everyone at Tern TV who worked on the programmes, brilliant co-presenters Jacky Klein and Emma Dabiri, and above all the Maestro, series producer and director, Spike Geilinger.
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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow; Joshua Reynolds, Portrait of a Lady. We weren't able to clean this one, due to Reynolds' eccentric use of pigments, but at least that helped prove he painted it.
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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tatton Park; Francesco Salviati, 'Portrait of a Physician, perhaps Realdo Colombo' (previously Italian School’.
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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Brighton Museum; Francisco Trevisani, 'Penitent Magdalene' (previously, Italian School). Any suggestion I looked for Italian pictures because we liked filming in Italy are false.
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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Brighton Museum; Joos van Cleve, 'Balthasar' (previously, circle of Bernard van Orley).
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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; Sandro Botticelli and Studio, 'Madonna and Child' (previously follower of Botticelli). Pleased with this one - the head is astonishingly high quality. The background is a later addition.
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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Birmingham Museum; Thomas Barker of Bath, 'A peasant family in a wood' (previously Circle of Thomas Gainsborough). When I first saw this picture I thought it might be by Gainsborough himself, but that was wrong; Barker was his closest imitator.
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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Birmingham Museum; Jan Brueghel the Younger and Joos de Momper, 'Autumn Landscape' (previously, Flemish School). When I first saw this picture it was in two pieces in a drawer.
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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bodleian Library; Pompeo Batoni, 'Portrait of George Oakley Aldrich' (previously, Unknown Artist). Loved this one, especially uncovering the sitter's facial scarring, painted out by a later hand).
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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Petworth House; Attributed to Titian, 'Portrait of a Young Cardinal' (previously 'manner of Titian').
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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Manchester Art Gallery; Johan Zoffany, 'Portrait of a Gentleman' (previously attrib. Nathaniel Dance).
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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Knightshayes Court; Studio of Rembrandt, 'Self-Portrait' (prev 'Follower of R'). We proved through dendrochronology and paint analysis that the pic certainly came from R's workshop, but the great Rembrandt scholar Ernst van der Wetering was unpersuadable!
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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Carmarthenshire Museum; Mary Beale, 'Frances, Countess of Carbery' (previously, attrib. Peter Lely).
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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Carmarthenshire Museum; Peter Lely, 'Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery' (previously, Unknown Artist).
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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hospitalfield, Arbroath; Anthonis Mor, 'Portrait of a Man' (previously, Unknown Artist). One of the best portraits I've worked on; you wouldn't mess with this fellow, whoever he was.
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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Derby Museum; Joseph Wright of Derby, 'Ponte Nomentano' (previously thought to be by a follower of Wright, due to some of the worst overpaint I've ever seen).
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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Glasgow, Pollok House; Rubens, 'Portrait of the Duke of Buckingham' (prev thought to be a copy of a lost original). Most of these pics I first found via the great ArtUK website, but this one my wife (and exec producer) Ishbel Grosvenor and I were visiting the house, looking for the cafe.
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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ulster Museum; Peter Brueghel the Younger, 'Winter' (previously thought to be a copy).
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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ulster Museum; Peter Brueghel the Younger, 'Spring' (previously thought to be a copy). Spot the magically reappearing sheep and chickens.
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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Haddo House; Attrib. Raphael (previously attrib Innocenzo da Imola). This one was hindered by the fact we couldn't send the picture to London. It has since been doubted, thou I still think it could be from R's studio. The pic has never been properly analysed - hopefully one day!
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