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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Braved football crowds, mini-open-air raves, and an absurd pro-monarchy demo - nothing stops me from getting to this Schoenberg tonight!

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Monumental Mary Magdalene exhibition just opened at Städel Museum. Works from c.1100 to this century exploring the overlapping myths of arguably the second most persistently represented fictional character in western culture. (relief carving from Salerno cathedral, El Greco, Béraud, Böcklin).

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Deff want this chap as my bodyguard when it comes to the revolution.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ausschnitte aus Breughelland im Städel Museum.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Derek vs Derek sounds full of hope, showing that an obstinate uneducated reactionary can eventually be shown how a better path exists.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Historically-interesting Waldmüller landscapes at NG. Vibrant colours, odd brush technique. Striking composition in ‘Waterfall in Jainzen Valley’, 1832. Annoyed by forelock-tugging labels pompously announcing “this was entitled rich person x’s favourite view”.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wide-ranging survey of Japanese women photographers since 1950. Good balance of genres & styles, though inevitably few works by each given space at Photographers’ Gallery. Not surprising, though still appalling, that a *40-volume* survey of “Japanese photography” in the 1990s only included men.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And now it’s a blank canvas…

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Waiting for response from @britishmuseum.bsky.social regarding Tapestry visibility for wheelchair users. Initial media images suggest the display is near-horizontal, which rules out visibility for anyone with C1-C4 cervical injuries, with MND, or otherwise in a chair and unable to move their neck.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Much as one loves Scriabin, his Divine Poem doesn’t half thump the tub.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Barbican’s ‘Sunday in the Park with No-one’ after both lead actors withdraw now looks like Seurat’s preliminary study:

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

6 November, London. La Bola Negra opens in cinemas.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

‘Der Sommer war sehr groß. Leg deinen Schatten auf die Sonnenuhren, und auf den Fluren laß die Winde los.’ Rilke, Herbsttag, 1902.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Is Oto over for contemporary classical?

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sigmund fliegt mit Sex im Koffer, Baselitz, 2024.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I’ve tracked down a Dancetime Publications DVD “How to Dance through Time vol IV” does anyone have a copy of that I could borrow please? Can’t find it online or in libraries. Or has anyone seen that release to say whether it’s worth importing?

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Sad news that Blomstedt is too unwell for his Festival Hall Philharmonia concert in October.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Looking forward to exploring Newington Green restaurants now it’s slightly less hot and easier for me to have an evening out. Have a list of 7 or so I want to try. Plus still not been to Lupa at the end of my own road.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A 500 word-limit is barely an abstract, let alone an essay, so I’m giving myself a Lilliputian pat on the back for being awarded runner-up in the Courtauld Summer School essay competition.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Fascinating reading about immigrant artist James Whistler being involved with an arms-running scheme for Chilean rebels.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Wish I’d never started reading about Baumol and Bowen, but what a pair of uncultured philistines they were.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Surprisingly hard to find full-length videos online of authentic French baroque menuets danced by a troupe.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My main artistic dislike about use of video projection (whether live AI or pre-recorded) on an opera stage or in a concert hall is exactly this: the video creators/curators from all the examples I’ve seen over 20+ years have little to no understanding of the dramatic and musical pulse of the works.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Please can someone schedule Mika Kares as Sir Bertilak as soon as possible.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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Drowning By Numbers 1988 Peter Greenaway

ALT: Drowning By Numbers 1988 Peter Greenaway

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Belated Asalha Puja good wishes to you all.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

London’s weather has taken us from short shorts to tease the guys to where’s my cashmere sweater darling in the space of two days.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A neighbour’s children in their garden are practising a new form of medieval polyphony, which I’ve named ars crassior.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Curious, or maybe not, but at the same time as my tastes in music have changed over the years, so have the main London orchestras moved their programming in the opposite direction. Only four concerts in my diary after Proms and up to end of year at RFH/QEH/Barbican.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Not that much Shakespeare in the new RSC Stratford season…

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Any thoughts on the best methods/apps/books/courses in London from those recently learning Arabic from scratch please?

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Morning lecture-break update: “I don’t like academics who disagree with each other other, and I don’t like Austrian art”, said the person studying on a university course about art in Vienna.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Afternoon lecture update: dog and owner, both asleep, both snoring.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Of course the person who has brought their miniature dog to the morning lecture has a “question which is more of a comment”.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Any of you here have experience of James Turrell’s skyspaces? I had low expectations, but found the naturally-lit Seldom Seen moderately mesmerising. Or maybe it was a good refuge from the flat Norfolk landscape, as big skies scare me.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Was highly tempted to borrow a cassock and galero and make “no-one expects the Spanish Inquisition ” remarks when I saw NG Zubarán last month, and of course the big detached head is very Gilliam.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Taste update: Hinkin’s Seville orange+Maracujá marmalade has good texture (if you like fine cut), strong notes of both fruits, not too sweet but double-acidity is less welcome. Not convinced by combo, always found Maracujá better used as tart contrast to cream-based puds. Will try diff bread/butter.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Dropped into Fred’s for some more of Hitomi-san’s Yuzu and Peqr marmalade, pure yūgen. And found this year’s trophy winner: Hinkin’s Seville orange and passionfruit marmalade, which will be on the rye sourdough with some French salted butter breakfast-time tomorrow.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Chapeau noir to London’s young Goths for their devotion to the look even on the hottest days.

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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The UK universities crisis: "99 UK universities and 40 arts and humanities departments have undergone restructures and redundancies since 2020. The latter have been primarily concentrated in institutions that cater to students from underrepresented backgrounds, lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...

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Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books

Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

One imagines that audience members whose reaction to inconsequential lines or movements onstage is to erupt in a fortissimo serrated braying that makes even a raucous donkey seem more sophisticated than a crystalline Webern miniature are entirely unaware of how much disruption they cause.

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Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

MacMillan’s Mayerling a few weeks ago (with its highly sensitive choice of music from which many modern choreographers could learn), and tonight moving forward just a few years in the Dual Monarchy’s history.

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