John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 11/09/2026Developed a roll of film found at the back of a drawer and have no recollection of taking this one. 231
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 21/08/2026Hans 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. 030
Reposted by John-Paul StonardSamira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026On tonight's BBC Front Row: @johnpaulstonard.com and Suzi Feay review the new Irvine Welsh novel set in Vegas; Glenn Close in The Summer Book and the art of Richard Dadd. R4 715 or link after 🎧📻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 183
Reposted by John-Paul StonardBetterBert @betterbert.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Same to you, you're a gent. I get zero engagement on here so this counts as a lot for me, thank you. 121
Reposted by John-Paul StonardLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 28/06/2026‘The scumbles of colour are more like floating fig leaves, a form of protection: the rose, cobalt and sienna daubs compensate for the thinness of the aged bodies, giving them back some life, like fruit growing on an old tree.’ @johnpaulstonard.com on Georg Baselitz. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukJohn-Paul Stonard · At the Fondazione Giorgio Cini: On Georg BaselitzBaselitz did not make overtly political art. He felt that what mattered in painting existed on a deeper level than... 161
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 27/06/2026That is good to know - my first so a good start 010
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 27/06/2026First five pages pretty much everything you want from a book and a secondhand bookshop find. 140
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 23/06/2026Best arts podcast out there, and I'm on it! Hope you like it. open.spotify.com/episode/56kg...open.spotify.comS3:E6 Entartete Kunst, Munich, 1937Shows that Go On · Episode 030
Reposted by John-Paul StonardLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 23/06/2026‘The scumbles of colour are more like floating fig leaves, a form of protection: the rose, cobalt and sienna daubs compensate for the thinness of the aged bodies, giving them back some life, like fruit growing on an old tree.’ @johnpaulstonard.com on Georg Baselitz. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukJohn-Paul Stonard · At the Fondazione Giorgio Cini: On Georg BaselitzThis was the history that counted: the Nazi attack on ‘degenerate’ art before the war, and the continued presence of... 061
Reposted by John-Paul StonardJohn-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 12/06/2026'GOODBYE DAVID HOCKNEY! Few artists have meant more to so many people over the past seven decades in Britain and abroad. His work has been part of life, part of the way we see the world. He made us happy by opening our eyes' open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...open.substack.comGoodbye David Hockney!1937-2026 02813
Reposted by John-Paul StonardHugh Sykes @hughsykes.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Affectionate tribute to the inventive, resourceful, imaginative, ingenious.....David Hockney, who has died. 051
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 12/06/2026'GOODBYE DAVID HOCKNEY! Few artists have meant more to so many people over the past seven decades in Britain and abroad. His work has been part of life, part of the way we see the world. He made us happy by opening our eyes' open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...open.substack.comGoodbye David Hockney!1937-2026 02813
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 12/06/2026I wrote about Knife Edge Mirror Two Piece, and the Dallas Piece, by Henry Moore, and the best sited public sculptures in the world, and an astonishing exhibition a world away at Kew Gardens. open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...open.substack.comHenry Moore in America, at KewOn 'Henry Moore: Monumental Nature' at Kew Gardens, until 31.01.27 032
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 09/06/2026You cannot boo lustily, you can only boo seedily 000
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 06/06/2026My books popular with dogs it seems nothing to do with the cake. 010
Reposted by John-Paul StonardOld Street Publishing @oldstpublishing.bsky.social · 05/06/2026'Terrific...an imaginative tour de force' Bel Mooney in @dailymail.co.uk Books on @johnpaulstonard.com's THE WORST EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD: Degenerate Art, 1937. www.dailymail.com/home/books/a...dailymail.comThe artworks Hitler loved to hateThe Nazi's and especially Hitler found certain styles of art so grotesquely offensive that they even held a Degenerate Art exhibition 051
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 01/06/2026I really recommend subscribing to Carbon Brief, down to the facts and brilliantly informative. Makes it all seem a little less hopeless. This piece fact-checking Kemi Badenoch's position on the Climate Change Act is a classic. pdpwbj.clicks.mlsend.com/ty/cl/eyJ2Ij...pdpwbj.clicks.mlsend.comFactcheck: What the Climate Change Act does – and does not – mean for the UK - Carbon BriefThe UK’s Climate Change Act is a landmark piece of legislation that guides the nation’s response to global warming and has proved highly influential around the world. 0101
Reposted by John-Paul StonardRob Tyers @thexclaim6.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Just finished The Worst Exhibition in the World: Degenerate Art, 1937 (2026) by @johnpaulstonard.com and it was really excellent. Short 🧵👇 #booksky 1154
Reposted by John-Paul StonardSamira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 27/05/2026If you're an independent cinema interested in hosting a screening and audience Q&A with a local indie bookshop to sell my book, do drop me a line via my contact me page on the blog link in my profile.. (Newcastle, Belfast, Brighton, London already done or sorted) 2318
Reposted by John-Paul StonardIlluminations @illuminations.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Just finished @johnpaulstonard.com - *such* a good read, centred on an enthralling virtual visit, complementing vivid encounters with juxtapositions of artworks with acute critical commentary, and overall a smart, timely revisionist reading that suggests surprising positives from the event. Bravo. 251
Reposted by John-Paul StonardRob Tyers @thexclaim6.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Now reading - The Worst Exhibition in the World: Degenerate Art, 1937 (2026) by John-Paul Stonard #booksky 2162
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 19/05/2026The 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. 060
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 18/05/2026Here is the link to buy from the death star: www.amazon.co.uk/Worst-Exhibi...amazon.co.ukThe Worst Exhibition in the World: Degenerate Art, 1937: 3 (Great Events): Amazon.co.uk: Stonard, John-Paul: 9781913083908: BooksBuy The Worst Exhibition in the World: Degenerate Art, 1937: 3 (Great Events) by Stonard, John-Paul (ISBN: 9781913083908) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible or... 000
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 18/05/2026Really 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. 121
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 18/05/2026Thank you @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social for these images from Basel - it is like seeing my book 'The Worst Exhibition in the World' up on the wall. Really great pleasure to be on Start the Week last week, talking all things German and Weimar. 110
Reposted by John-Paul StonardArt Spell @artspell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Today’s Editor’s Pick is 'Comment | Degenerate art all over again? Nazi attack on Modern art is not far away from trends in today’s world' by @johnpaulstonard.com for @theartnewspaper.bsky.social.theartnewspaper.comComment | Degenerate art all over again? Nazi attack on Modern art is not far away from trends in today’s worldWhen it comes to art, Trump is an utter vacuum—he makes the Nazis look like great connoisseurs, says author John-Paul Stonard 172
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 15/04/2026In which money for bananas just keeps on appearing, a vision of Venice in Aqua Alta, thirty years ago. open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...open.substack.comVenice, 1997From my diary 030
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 12/04/2026Whether or not you want to use the word (and why not?), you have to take into account that there is nothing in American nowadays that looks like the Nazi spectacle of power, or the sense of an entire society emptied of individual volition, subsumed into one totalising visual spectacle. 120
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 12/04/2026The 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. 120
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 10/04/2026Nothing more dangerous than a little man wronged: 'One Nation Underdog' 000
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 03/04/2026Here's my answer to that! open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...open.substack.comInvisible CitiesOverland from London to Venice. 020
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 31/03/2026Wrote on how to paint a cloud, and a hidden figure in a famous (ish) painting. open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...open.substack.comCloud ManTrees, clouds, stags and death. 000
Reposted by John-Paul Stonard"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 31/03/2026For anyone who’s ever wondered what the connection is between Suffolk and the Straits of Hormuz, here from @johnpaulstonard.com is the answer: open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...open.substack.comThat Faraway LookOn a family portrait, and a historic survey of the Persian Gulf 031
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com · 31/03/2026It's the train painting that Constable never made with those clouds. 000
