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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 27/09/2026

Former Summer Palace. Dead Lotus Flowers on Kunming Lake. Beijing, China. René Burri, 1964. www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks...

Withered lotus stems and their abstract reflections on the calm surface of Kunming Lake at the Summer Palace in Beijing

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Victor Brauner permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Howard Hodgkin Theatre 1998-1999 oil on wood 31.3 x 37cm image from Christie's day sale of the fabulous Peter Simon collection

An abstract splashy painting dominated by its dark red-painted frame

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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Eileen Agar, Marine Object, 1939 botfrens.com/collections/14375/cont…

Presented by the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1990

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Beatgrrrl @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

At 100-years-old Ken Turner is one of the UKs oldest painter, sculptor and performance artist who has devoted his life to making art available to the masses. He flattened a Tesla with a tank: ‘I’m not a revolutionary, I’m a simple rebel’

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International Times @internationaltimes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ingre Morath, late 1950s Masks by Saul Steinberg

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.” Bertie Wooster

Daniel Thomas and his Black Shorts in London today.

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Jeff Sunbury @jsunbury.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Leonor Fini - Étude, Contes Fantastiques d'E. A. Poe (1987) Oil and ink on paper, 36.7 x 30.3 cm www.weinstein.com/artists/31-l... via Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Raoul Vaneigem, lifelong heretic and heretophile(?), a thinker and scholar, poet of revolt & ex situationist comrade (then not) of Guy Debord. His Traité de savoir vivre à l'usage des jeunes générations was an inspiration in 68 and remains thrilling to read. www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...

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Mort de Raoul Vaneigem, philosophe libertaire et inspirateur de Mai 68

Le penseur belge, mort cette semaine à 92 ans, fut aux côtés de Guy Debord l’une des figures du situationnisme, ce mouvement de contestation radicale du capitalisme et de la «société du spectacle», in...

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Hermann Landshoff Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1954 The model is looking at "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even" (The Large Glass), by Marcel Duchamp One of the great fashion photographs.

A model in a long skirt leans down to look closely at the art work.

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ginsbergpoem.bsky.social @ginsbergpoem.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

@gertiewentworth.bsky.social - Remembering Mayakovsky Mayakovsky's Birthday - allenginsberg.org/2017/07/july...

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~Art+Rage~ @artrage.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"The force that will be used to maintain order will be proportionate to the magnitude of the resistance encountered." —Manifesto by General Francisco Franco, 17 July 1936 via radio broadcast.

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Lucia Joyce, daughter of James Joyce and Nora Barnacle, photographed in 1928 by Berenice Abbott, #BOTD.

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Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 17/07/2026

Temple Gardens, 1920 #paulklee #klee

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

"The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye." - Remembering Jacques Derrida on his birthday 🎂 📷 Torbjørn Rødland, Five Tears, 2014

A photograph of a young woman with tears running down her cheeks

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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Joseph Beuys, Overcome Party Dictatorship Now, 1971 botfrens.com/collections/14375/cont…

ARTIST ROOMS Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008

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Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 09/07/2026

The invention of life, 1928 #belgianart #surrealism

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I happened to post this yesterday: in 1977, Thomas Bernhard sent himself a postcard, with the message "Beruhige Dich, Thomas" (Calm down, Thomas)

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David Varela @writingstudio.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

There's also a very fine statue of her outside St Thomas' Hospital, opposite the Houses of Parliament.

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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

David Hockney Godfrey Argent

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Leonora Carrington The Return of Boadicea 1969 oil on canvas 80.6 x 80.6 cm 'A Roman [is] being degutted by one of the horses, they are using the horns growing out of each side of their muzzle to eviscerate the enemy.' (LC)

'Julius Caesar observed that Britons looked at the hare, the cock and the goose as creatures unlawful to eat, and that the study of birds and animals had been part of the divination process that helped Boadicea win the battle against the Romans. The story, first told by Roman historian, Cassius Dio, is that Boadicea employed a form of divination during her battle with the Romans and released a hare from the folds of her dress, following its direction as an indication of where to strike at the Romans.

Carrington draws on all the elements of this story in her rendering of the subject. Against a swirling celestial background, the legendary Celtic warrior queen Boadicea charges across a cosmic expanse in her horse-drawn chariot. Figures and beasts scatter in her path as she reclaims her power, embodying a timeless myth of vengeance and rebirth. The work’s symbolically charged atmosphere make it one of Carrington’s most striking late works: a declaration of female strength rendered through mythic transformation.'
(Sotheby's)

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Selby @selby1.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

📸 Costică-Acsinte - Animation by Bill Domonkos

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

In other words, by 1959 Old Golds were pretty square. Burroughs himself preferred - at least when he was in London - untipped Senior Service, a classic British cigarette brand the taste for which was absolutely the only thing he had in common with my father

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

‘Hauser had a way of hitting you before he said anything just to break the ice. Then O’Brien gives you an Old Gold - just like a cop to smoke Old Golds somehow…' William Burroughs, Naked Lunch 1959

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Miss Kimmi Kitty Mama @miss-kimmi.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Yves Tanguy

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Happy birthday Jim Dine 🎂 🎨 Self-portrait, 2023 "It's said we were the inheritors of Pollock's tradition. That's crap. Oldenburg and I came out of the theatre that we knew; we were literate young men. We came out of Brecht, Artaud. We looked to Genet."

Charcoal on paper, the head of the painter.

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

“Ogled by an octogenarian? When an Amorous Antique can’t take his aged glimmers off your silken shapelies, don’t fry him to a frizzle. Brighten up, by lightin’ up a honey smooth Old Gold. These mellow-as-moonlight O.G.’s have charms to soothe even the savage peeve.” (1936)

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Bruce Gorrie @bsrg1.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The Dug Out Club, Beirut, 1960. The walls were decorated with lines from The Rubáiyát.

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Here's another mise en abyme image, a poster for a 1979 Fluxus group show in Nice. Participants included George Brecht, Robert Filliou, Dick Higgins, Joe Jones, Alison Knowles, George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Daniel Spoerri, Takako Saito, Tomas Schmit, Ben Vautier, and others.

64 x 45 cm, printed black on packing paper. Announces the Fluxus group show held from July 5 to September 23, 1979 in Nice, previously presented at Elac, Lyon, April 1979. The poster is up for auction on June 19th at Zwiggelaar Auctions in Amsterdam

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Seán Costello @seanjcostello.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Sad to hear Marjane Satrapi, author of this extraordinary memoir, has died

Cover of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi’s graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Victor Brauner Victor Victorios écrasant les envoûteurs 1949 oil on canvas 54.5 x 46 cm

You've still time to bid on this. If Sotheby's is right you'll need between 300,000 -400,000 EUR

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Valentine Hugo Portrait d'Arthur Rimbaud 1933 oil on panel with rhinestones and collage 100 x 75cm

On 8th March 2022 VH's wonderful portrait of Rimbaud sold for £1,042,750

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Victor Brauner Coupe des cent-vingt dispositions érotomagiques 1946 wax on panel 68 x 53.5 cm one of a great cache of Brauner works from the Feinsilber Collection, up for auction at Sotheby's in a few days

Having settled in Paris in 1938, Brauner took refuge from the Nazis in the Hautes-Alpes in April 1942, where he lived in hiding for nearly three years under conditions of extreme austerity. The shortage of traditional materials led him to experiment with alternative supports and media, notably candle wax and later beeswax, which opened up new formal possibilities within his practice. "Unable to obtain oil paint, he created wax paintings by spreading a thin layer of melted candle grease onto canvas or cardboard, then engraving a drawing into the surface, later accentuated with soot-black; the forms themselves were coloured with lightly glazed tones." (Marcel Jean, The History of Surrealist Painting, London, 1960)

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Victor Brauner Le Monde 1961 gouache on a folded newspaper sheet 49.8 x 34.5 cm

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Victor Brauner Homonisation Pantaculaire III 1961 oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm a super picture by the always interesting (and increasingly collectable) Romanian surrealist

Another great image from the unique Brauner imaginarium. It's kicking off at Christie's with an opening bid of EUR 60,000. The interesting provenance is a factor too: it's dedicated 'A PAOLO' on the reverse, being a gift to the great Italian avant-gardist Paolo Buggiani

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Marie Ruiz-Vidal @ruizvidal7.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Pina Bausch

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

"Homage to New York" by Jean Tinguely (1960)

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Karel Appel Insect Blessé Contre un Rocher 1959 oil on canvas 129.5 x 161.3 cm

A large and apparently figurative (or so we might assume from the title) oil painting to be sold at Sotheby's. The great, intransigent CoBrA artist, 1921-2006, here at the height of his very messy game. As usual it's taken twenty years to pass since his death to make him bankable; there's already a 100,000 USD opening bid placed ahead of the auction tomorrow

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Here's Nicole Kidman grooving about in the presence of Brancusi's enigmatic c. 1913 sculptural head Danaïde, with David Bowie's Golden Years as a soundtrack: tinyurl.com/4kx58n7f The Brancusi is soon coming up for auction at Christie's New York

The end credits of this glitzy little promo show that a full crew was employed to make it, and presumably everybody involved was properly paid, which gives some idea of the very great wealth of the larger auction houses. More interesting than the main body of the film are its very brief excerpts from what must have been its inspiration: Lee Miller unveils Brancusi’s sculpture Princess X in Man Ray’s cinema short “Self-Portrait, or What We All Lack,” circa 1930. The Christie’s web page links to it.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 15/05/2026

Leonora Carrington in her studio Kati Horna huxleyparlour.com/artists/kati...

wamn stood next to a painted portrait of a head, the head has a spder on its forehead

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Jankel Adler Bauersfrau mit Kuh 1943 oil on canvas 112.2 x 86.5 cm

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Kurt Schwitters Plate 3 from Merz 3 [i.e. the third of six prints which Schwitters published in portfolio form as Number 3 of his journal Merz] 1923 paper collage on lithograph 55.5 x 44.6 cm

$"...plate 3 from Kurt Schwitters' only self-produced print portfolio, Merz 3, comprising six lithographs that represent a defining expression of his Dada-inflected "Merz" practice, in which fragments of everyday materials are reassembled into dynamic compositions. Produced at a Hanover printing plant using salvaged, freshly printed papers transferred directly onto lithographic stone, the works embody an experimental process driven by chance and improvisation. Incorporating elements such as advertisements, cigarette wrappers, and book illustrations, the compositions reflect the fractured cultural landscape of post–World War I Germany. Particularly rare impressions, such as the present example, feature additional hand-applied collage elements layered atop the printed surface, an approach also seen in examples held by the Museum of Modern Art, underscoring Schwitters' fusion of commercial ephemera, abstraction, and the irrational as a response to modern upheaval." (Bonham$

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X-Ray Eyes @xrayeyes.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Shirley MacLaine in Two For the Seesaw, Robert Wise (1962)

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Leonor Fini in 1951, photographed by André Ostier

Leonor Fini, 1907-1996, in one of her alarming mask and costume outfits

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