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Katrina Brown

@katrinabrown.bsky.social
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Art, and all that entails. Director at The Common Guild. Trustee of Art Fund. Live in (and mostly love) Glasgow. Otherwise in the garden 🌱

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 15h
Tl;dr: the Trump administration lifting sanctions against Russia in the week that Russia escalates its campaign of war crimes against Ukrainian civilians is disgusting but it shouldn't be remotely surprising. It's what Trump and his circle have always wanted to do.
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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This by @benlukeart.bsky.social (one of many damning reviews by actual critics, as opposed to all the thoughtless love from influencers and platforms) is excellent at many of the issues. www.thenerve.news/p/review-the...
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Review of the Week: The 90s: Art and Fashion
We were due a rigorous cultural appraisal of an increasingly mythologised decade. Sadly, Tate Britain's jarring clash of modern masterpieces and glossy-mag photoshoots is not it, writes Nerve art crit...
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Happy 35th birthday to the mighty @womenslibrary.bsky.social 🎉
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you are or will be in London, head to Gallery Ibraaz for Gabrielle Goliath's Elegy, Lawrence Abu Hamdan's Earshot and more. ibraaz.org/whats-on/a-l...
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A Lifework of Mourning | Ibraaz
To mark the opening of Gabrielle Goliath's Elegy at Ibraaz, Gabrielle Goliath, Christina Sharpe and Sara Nadal-Melsió join to discuss how mourning can facilitate a praxis of gathered grief, refusal an...
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Plus - it's London. Not Britain. 🙄
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Strange feeling ...
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Been singing all morning.
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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
'She looks like Eva Marie Saint in "On the Waterfront"…'
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Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
YouTube video by LloydColeVEVO
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This scene, in this film. Perfection. RIP Eva Marie Saint - whose name we were singing before we knew who she was, thanks to Lloyd Cole & the Commotions (listen to Rattlesnakes)
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Given to every school pupil in Glasgow in 1976 for Glasgow's 800th anniversary.
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have one of those!
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So much exactly this.
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So much winning...
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That photo always breaks my heart 💔
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Brian Ferguson @brianjaffa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Creative Scotland has triggered a new bidding process for the former CCA building in Glasgow - and revealed its “preference” is now selling the site or transferring ownership. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2657448... @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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CCA building set to change hands as Creative Scotland triggers new bidding process
Creative Scotland says its 'preference' is to sell or transfer ownership of the former Third Eye Centre and CCA building in Glasgow.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 10/09/2026
“This is the museum event of the decade, possibly the century so far. Are we really to believe that a more ethical partner would not have jumped at the chance to be involved?” @benlukeart.bsky.social on the #BayeuxTapestry at the British Museum. www.thenerve.news/p/bayeux-tap...
We need to talk about the Bayeux Tapestry show and its billionaire sponsor. By Ben Luke. Photograph: a poster for the Bayeux Tapestry outside the British Museum with sponsor Igor Tulchinsky’s name at an equal scale to those of the British Museum and the French government.
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Shocking story.
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Actual headline: “Farage sold himself to one foreign based crypto millionaire & has now sold his party to yet another one”. What a surprise that a party with little concrete policy has very specific policies on… crypto tax cuts
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem died.
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Sadly spot on by Zoe Williams | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Farewell Keir Starmer, a terrible politician whom we desperately wanted to be something more | Zoe Williams
‘U-turn’ doesn’t do justice to the myriad ways he found to break a pledge. Now the former PM is resigning as an MP, why did I have such high hopes? asks Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Scottish Govenrment has announced a pilot scheme for a Minimum Income for Artists. Could be good news - the devil will as ever be in the detail. There has been a lot of looking over to Ireland and how its basic income scheme has developed : www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Ireland announces scheme to provide basic income for artists
The Basic Income for Artists (BIA) project is believed to be the first permanent one of its kind in the world.
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Plums ➡️ plum cake
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Things we don't need or want no. 6,489 🙄
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
FT Editorial on Israel’s de facto annexation of the West Bank www.ft.com/content/9669...
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Scotland this week, London in September | www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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The ear witness: Turner-winner Lawrence Abu Hamdan and his ‘sound evidence’ exposés of human rights abuses
From killings in Gaza to the alleged use of a sonic weapon on a vigil in Belgrade, the Lebanese-British artist reveals how his work for activist group Earshot is inseparable from his art
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I mean .. is there any reaction other than "so what?"
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Looking forward to Lawrence Abu Hamdan being back in Scotland this week. Exhibition and talk (which I think is fully booked) @thecommonguild.bsky.social and performance on Sat with EAF | thecommonguild.org.uk/programme
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Programme entries — THE COMMON GUILD
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Everything that's wrong.
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Happy birthday! 🎉
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I used to have a photo of Felix Gonzalez Torres' cat that he sent me. Long lost 😫
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Where / how do they even get these stories?
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Such a good example of how city / mayoral government can achieve real positive change
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 19/08/2026
This stopped me in my tracks. An independent study by @qmul.bsky.social has found that after ULEZ was introduced, children’s lungs grew faster in Central London and have now caught up with children outside of the capital. Incredible.
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I couldn't love Deborah Levy's writing more 🍋
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I wish it were just rightwing newspapers.
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
😆
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Endlessly appalling
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Christine's Obituary in @theguardian by @sorchadallas - Image is of work that was commissioned for exhibition at Tate Liverpool in 1998 | www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Christine Borland obituary
Turner prize nominee whose installations, sculptures and films returned repeatedly to the histories embedded within bodies
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Peak eclipse. In Glasgow. 🙄
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
For years, I've been trying to avoid domestic flights, travelling by train. Last time I went to London my train ticket down cost £189. The train was cancelled, the later one was 30 mins late and 4 weeks later I am still waiting for refund. Just booked flight for next trip - £90. SORT THE TRAINS!
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"Art trail" 😖 Wait til you see the Scottie dogs in Glasgow. 😖
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The poor room looks like it has some sort of golden scabies. Gross to contemplate that this once dignified building is a ruin at one end and this Liberace nightmare rummage sale at the other.
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Excellent piece @edwinheathcote.bsky.social
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Spot on - and an excellent reminder in eloquent text of how beautiful the building was, and would be again www.ft.com/content/2d1d...
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Why the Glasgow School of Art deserves to be fully restored
Years after two devastating fires, Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s art nouveau masterpiece faces an uncertain future. It’s time the government stepped up
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Agree
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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A Pisan art student bumped into Keith Haring in Manhattan one day and said: “Why don’t you come and paint a mural in my home town?” So he did. It’s called Tuttomondo, it symbolises peace and is the second last outdoor work he created before his death a few months later in 1990.
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Not a bad idea!
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Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Most pleasing garden task in the summer
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