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John-Paul Stonard

@johnpaulstonard.com

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Writer New book: THE WORST EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD, DEGENERATE ART, 1937, out now 🚀

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John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 11/09/2026

Developed a roll of film found at the back of a drawer and have no recollection of taking this one.

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John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 21/08/2026

Hans Memling's painting of four cranes in the National Gallery, holding a stone aloft so they do not sleep, reminding of the two cranes outside my window in Camden doing pretty much the same thing.

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John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 27/06/2026

First five pages pretty much everything you want from a book and a secondhand bookshop find.

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John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 06/06/2026

My books popular with dogs it seems nothing to do with the cake.

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John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 19/05/2026

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John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 19/05/2026

The lump of marble out of which the next book is being carved. Drafted to 60,000 words, but half of them will have to go.

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John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 18/05/2026

Really wonderful to see 'The Worst Exhibition In The World' doing well, out there in the world. Thank you all, this is the real reward for writing: 'Our praises are our wages'. I thought about this while admiring the last Elm tree in London earlier today, on Marylebone High Street.

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John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 07/05/2026

I wrote a book. Out now!

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John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 12/04/2026

The Wikipedia page on Donald Trump and fascism is itself a monument to resistance, and yet there is not a single mention of the spectacle and visual element so important to the fascisms of the thirties.

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John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 25/02/2026

Will I ever remember to stand up straight in lectures

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John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 09/02/2026

Green versus Reform on Art. Some thoughts in The Art Newspaper. open.substack.com/pub/stonard/...

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John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 04/02/2026

Best sightline in any gallery, six hundred feet to the Mond Crucifixion by Raphael in the #NationalGallery, London.

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John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 03/02/2026

The spare dry lines of Millet's 1856 etching of 'The Gleaners' make this print even more affecting than the famous painting in the Musée d'Orsay. As if the image itself has been gleaned from the margins of art history.

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John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 18/06/2025

Reminder of why I write for the @lrb.co.uk, subscribe to the @economist.com, and have never been to Hay @hayfestival.bsky.social (Economist, 31st May, 'Bagehot: The Rise of Middle-Class Consciousness')

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