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Brian Howell

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Teacher, novelist, short story writer, published by Salt, Zagava, and Raphus Press. Possibly mad about art, film, fiction, and cycling.

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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bao Vuong: The Crossing – Becoming Light, Tokyo Gendai Art Fair, Yokohama. As with others in the series, the water comes across as almost 3D (maybe it is). Listed materials are oil and golden leaves on wood...
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bao Vuong: The Crossing – Replacing The Darkness, Tokyo Gendai Art Fair, Yokohama. The water is almost 3D, I thought maybe wood or a lot of impasto, but the materials listed are oil, acrylic, and graphite...
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Jerusalem artichoke/wild sunflower, Yoshimi, near Arakawa.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A new offering form a superb e-zine. Many thanks to Lorette C. Luzajic and all those who offered their insights : www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast...
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​Woman Writing a Letter by Gerard Ter Borch (1655),  by Brian Howell
​ Woman Writing a Letter by Gerard Ter Borch (1655)   She pushes aside the luxurious table carpet as if it is an irritant. The prevailing mood is calm, even with the rufous canopy bed in the...
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My first review of a book in many years. An excellent collection by Jo Mazelis: www.goodreads.com/book/show/28...
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Ritual, 1969
What are little girls made of? What will they become? W…
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Arakawa very high, Ageo , Saitama. Slight Tarkovskian feel to this location, one of my favourite views.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Bao Vuong: The Crossing – Replacing The Darkness, Tokyo Gendai Art Fair, Yokohama. Pay attention to the amusing fake names and designs of the beverages! The water is almost 3D, I thought maybe wood or a lot of impasto, but the materials listed are oil, acrylic, and graphite...
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Another work by 'Mister', Tokyo Gendai Art Fair, Yokohama. Pay attention to the amusing fake names and designs of the beverages!
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Work by 'Mister', Tokyo Gendai Art Fair, Yokohama.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Another excellent slice of British film life from the 60s (albeit this one is set in Ireland, based on an Edna O'Brien novel). Rita Tushingham is just amazing, while Peter Finch is superb as always. Lynn Redgrave also great. Not quite the typical social realist cinema associated with this period.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My first review of a book in many a year. Highly recommended! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My first review of a book in many years. An excellent collection by Jo Mazelis: www.goodreads.com/book/show/28...
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Ritual, 1969
What are little girls made of? What will they become? W…
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A new offering form a superb e-zine. Many thanks to Lorette C. Luzajic and all those who offered their insights : www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast...
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​Woman Writing a Letter by Gerard Ter Borch (1655),  by Brian Howell
​ Woman Writing a Letter by Gerard Ter Borch (1655)   She pushes aside the luxurious table carpet as if it is an irritant. The prevailing mood is calm, even with the rufous canopy bed in the...
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Muscovy Duck, Lake Minowada, Ogose. Hanging out with the cormorants.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A likely crew, Lake Minowada, Ogose. Very quiet.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Approaching Ogose, Saitama, Japan, on bike.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 21/07/2026
‘Zurbarán and his workshop painted dozens of series, not only of virgin martyrs, but also of the tribes of Israel, archangels, apostles and emperors on horseback. Many were shipped to the Viceroyalty of Peru, which had few European-trained artists.’ Nicola Jennings: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Nicola Jennings · At the National Gallery: Zurbarán in Seville
Zurbarán has always seemed to me an engaging but second division painter. Seeing many of his paintings across all the...
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Barn swallows.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Blowing.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Old Smokey. :)
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Dutch News @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
“Terrible decision”: Den Bosch votes to scrap Carnaval Thursday www.dutchnews.nl?p=270115
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“Terrible decision”: Den Bosch votes to scrap Carnaval Thursday
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
My dentist has a good sense of humour.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Not for the first time, I come across a passage in Jorge Semprun's 'The Second Death of Ramon Mercader' that really recalls Robbe-Grillet's nouveau-/ciné-roman 'Last Year in Marienbad'. Maybe not surprising when you know that Semprun later worked with Alain Resnais.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Monster revealed. :)
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Josh @jcmrva.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Read in June: @brianh61.bsky.social @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social
Murder Most Serene by Gabrielle Wittkop
Ballerina by Patrick Modiano
Skeletons in the Closet by Jean-Patrick Manchette
The Great Nocturnal by Jean Ray
Self-Portrait in Green by Maria Ndiaye
Phosphor in Dreamland by Rikki Ducornet
At the Lighthouse anthology edited by Sophie Essex
Another Green World by Henry Wessells
From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey by Pascal Khoo Thwe
Spadework for a Palace by László Krasznahorkai
The Study of Sleep and Other Stories by Brian Howell
Almost True by Clarice Lispector
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A crepuscular waterfall, Tokyo.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Anything to get attention.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Half.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Ron Mueck at the Mori Art Museum, Roppongi, Tokyo. Great stuff.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Ron Mueck at the Mori Art Museum, Roppongi, Tokyo.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Ron Mueck at the Mori Art Museum, Roppongi, Tokyo.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
You looking at me? (Shot by a friend.). Ron Mueck at the Mori Art Museum, Roppongi, Tokyo. Great stuff.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Ron Mueck at the Mori Art Museum, Roppongi, Tokyo. Great stuff.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Ron Mueck at the Mori Art Museum, Roppongi, Tokyo. Great stuff.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Recent listen. Good. Features Laurie Anderson.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This pretty much blew my mind. Apparently, it's a hemaris or clearwing or hummingbird moth which I took for some kind of bee.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Morning wall reflection.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Spookiness at a distance...
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Looking good.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Also arrived. Thanks to Al Diniz at Raphus Press.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Arrived. Thanks to Al Diniz at Raphus Press.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Bubbly.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Primeval.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Dancing tree.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Angles. Rikkyo University Campus, Ikebukuro, Tokyo.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Looming.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
In the shrine.
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Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The gathering,Tokyo.
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