Reposted by Lottie WhalenRemedios Varo @remediosvaro.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Star Maker botfrens.com/collections/69/content… 17820
Lottie Whalen @lwhalen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026‘THIS,MY CHILD, IS HOW THE WORLD LOOKS, THAT IS WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN BORN INTO, THERE ARE THOSE BORN TO SHEAR & THOSE BORN TO BE SHORN. THAT, MY CHILD, IS HOW IT LOOKS IN THIS WORLD OF OURS & IF YOU, MY CHILD, DO NOT LIKE IT, THEN YOU WILL JUST HAVE TO CHANGE IT’ - Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, c.1934 020
Lottie Whalen @lwhalen.bsky.social · 20/01/2026I revisited Radicals & Rogues: the Women Who Made New York Modern for a conversation w/ @janescimeca.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Listen to us chat about Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the Baroness Elsa & other women of New York’s Smock Colony - newbooksnetwork.com/radicals-and...newbooksnetwork.comLottie Whalen, "Radicals & Rogues: The Women Who Made New York Modern" (Reaktion, 2023) - New Books Network 011
Reposted by Lottie WhalenExtra Teeth @extrateethmag.bsky.social · 31/10/2025The Quick and the Dead by @lwhalen.bsky.social In her profoundly affecting essay, Lottie writes about her great-grandmother's youth during the blitz, the historical forces shaping reproductive rights and her own experience of giving birth. 121
Reposted by Lottie WhalenExtra Teeth @extrateethmag.bsky.social · 10/06/2025GLASGOW! This FRIDAY 13th 👻 join us at Mount Florida Books for our second launch! Expect fabulous readings from fabulous @lwhalen.bsky.social and Suki Hollywood Delicious wine from Smith and Gertrude Please do join us — we are so happy to be back we have to party twice 🥳 153
Reposted by Lottie WhalenLottie Whalen @lwhalen.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Thrilled to have my essay The Quick & The Dead - on reproductive rights, my great grandma, her abortionist neighbour & histories of other working-class women’s lives, birth, death & the borderlands between - in this gorgeous new issue of Extra Teeth. In brilliant company! Available to preorder 👇 0102
Reposted by Lottie WhalenExtra Teeth @extrateethmag.bsky.social · 27/05/2025And she’s here!!! Issue Nine is currently winging her way out into the world 🐟 🦷 We are so excited about this issue; not only is it a massive banger but it is so good to be BACK! 173
Reposted by Lottie WhalenArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 27/05/2025In homage to Audre Lorde, the artist’s exhibition at SCAD Museum of Art explores whether subsistence itself can be a form of resistance artreview.com/diedrick-bra...artreview.comDiedrick Brackens: Social FabricIn homage to Audre Lorde, the artist’s exhibition at SCAD Museum of Art explores whether subsistence itself can be a form of resistance 021
Reposted by Lottie WhalenPaul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Actor's Mask www.moma.org/collection/works/80094 07812
Reposted by Lottie WhalenDecorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 26/05/2025‘I love pushing mediums into the monumental and the monstrous’ 🍃 Read our latest interview with artist Jonathan Baldock, who pushes craft to its limits: decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/myth-and-m...decoratingdissidence.substack.comMyth and making: An interview with Jonathan BaldockPushing craft mediums into the monumental and the monstrous... 052
Reposted by Lottie WhalenFANZINES @fanzines.bsky.social · 18/05/2025MAKE ZINES! poster by zine maker / artist Cort Hartle. Download the free high res version (PDF) to print at home: freight.cargo.site/m/W234787385... Printing and distribution encouraged by the artist, so please RT, print it, fly post it, flyer it & spread the word! #zine #zines #fanzine #fanzines 101366699
Reposted by Lottie WhalenExtra Teeth @extrateethmag.bsky.social · 16/05/2025And last but extremely not least: LAUNCHES! We are very excited to be hosting TWO launches, one in Edinburgh with the fab @portybooks.bsky.social and one in Glasgow, with the equally fab Mount Florida Books! Please join us in launching Issue 9, and let us celebrate the ET comeback in style 🎉 142
Lottie Whalen @lwhalen.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Thrilled to have my essay The Quick & The Dead - on reproductive rights, my great grandma, her abortionist neighbour & histories of other working-class women’s lives, birth, death & the borderlands between - in this gorgeous new issue of Extra Teeth. In brilliant company! Available to preorder 👇 0102
Reposted by Lottie WhalenThe Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 15/05/2025🚨 NEW: Opportunities for the poorest young people in London far outstrip the rest of England, we have found. Our new Opportunity Index reveals how the area young people grow up in shapes their life chances, with huge differences between constituencies across the country 🧵⬇️ 23331
Reposted by Lottie WhalenMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Guess it's a good time to let people know that in 1969 Air France commissioned artist Sheila Hicks to create series of unique panels in Chinese silk for business-class sections of their 747 aircraft. Hicks hand-embroidered 19 in all; only remaining one is now at MoMA www.moma.org/collection/w... 7929
Reposted by Lottie WhalenThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/04/2025During his life, Willy Ley predicted the dawn of the Space Age with remarkable accuracy. How did his remains end up forgotten in a co-op on the Upper West Side?nytimes.comWilly Ley Was a Prophet of Space Travel. His Ashes Were Found in a Basement.During his life, Willy Ley predicted the dawn of the Space Age with remarkable accuracy. How did his remains end up forgotten in a co-op on the Upper West Side? 29618
Reposted by Lottie WhalenExtra Teeth @extrateethmag.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Are you working on a piece of writing, unsure of whether it’s ready to send out? Or are you ready but you don’t know where your work might fit? Have you always wondered how the submission process works? 11010
Reposted by Lottie WhalenRose Knapp 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Enchantment by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven poets.org/poem/enchant... #poetry #dadaismpoets.orgEnchantmentHere / crawls / moon— 084
Reposted by Lottie WhalenDr Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou @hannahhg.bsky.social · 20/04/2025My Fane talk with the brilliant author @sineadgleeson.bsky.social is still available to stream for free until tomorrow eve. Watch it here for more on art, feminism, communes & community in Sinéad's #novel #hagstone: www.fane.co.uk/sinead-gleesonfane.co.ukSinéad Gleeson Tickets, Tour Dates & Concerts - FaneBuy face value Sinéad Gleeson tickets from Fane, a primary ticket agent for Sinéad Gleeson. View tour dates, event details and more. 012
Reposted by Lottie Whaleneileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Georgia O'Keeffe, Pink Moon Over Water, 1924 (Smith College Museum of Art collection) 348489
Reposted by Lottie WhalenGuggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Variant “Adobe: Gray Turns Violet” by Josef Albers, 1958 #artbots #guggenheim botfrens.com/collections/212/conten… 1354
Reposted by Lottie WhalenSandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK. Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...gold.ac.ukPalestinian Scholarship 2377482
Lottie Whalen @lwhalen.bsky.social · 12/04/2025🌳🍃Larkin on a glorious spring day in Glasgow, via @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social 🌳🍃 130
Reposted by Lottie WhalenThe Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · 10/04/2025"It felt important to honour the fact that motherhood doesn’t finish when you’ve weaned the baby" Touring exhibition Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood comes to @dcadundee.bsky.social this summer – read @lwhalen.bsky.social's interview with curator Hettie Judahbuff.lyMotherhood in the Art World – The SkinnyThis month, Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, a Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition, arrives at Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA). We talk to curator Hettie Judah on the importance of making space… 043
Lottie Whalen @lwhalen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Beatrice Wood (March 3 1893-March 12 1998). A co-conspirator in Duchamp’s Fountain scandal, she became a ceramicist in mid-life after training with Gertrud & Otto Natzler. Alongside luster glazed vessels, she crafted kitsch, playful figurines that channeled the spirit of Dada. 1122
Reposted by Lottie WhalenDr Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou @hannahhg.bsky.social · 12/03/2025🩷This is tonight🩷 Book for free & watch online this evening & in the next 2 weeks. www.fane.co.uk/sophie-haydockfane.co.ukSophie Haydock Tickets, Tour Dates & Concerts - FaneBuy face value Sophie Haydock tickets from Fane, a primary ticket agent for Sophie Haydock. View tour dates, event details and more. 085
Reposted by Lottie WhalenMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 25/02/2025It’s here! Back in print after years, Andrea Dworkin’s Right Wing Women offers a lucid and searing look at women’s conservatism and conservatism’s view of women. If you’re interested in gender in the Trump era, this is the most useful book you can read: bookshop.org/p/books/righ...bookshop.orgRight-Wing WomenCheck out Right-Wing Women - <p><b>With a new foreword by Moira Donegan, this long-awaited reissue of Dworkin’s iconic study of women in American conservatism is paired with a bold, modern package to ... 815425
Reposted by Lottie WhalenDecorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 10/02/2025From Dada to Taboo! Our modernist maker feature celebrates provocateur Leigh Bowery 💚 decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/modernist-...decoratingdissidence.substack.comModernist Maker Digest 016: Leigh BoweryHow the taboo busting performance artist brought the Dada spirit into a new decade... 073
Reposted by Lottie WhalenBWMA @blackwomenmakeart.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Black Women Make Art is an ongoing database of global Black women visual artists, past and present, working in painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, video, etc. This archive acts as a historical resource that keeps their underrepresented work in dialogue. blackwomenmakeart.blogspot.com?m=1blackwomenmakeart.blogspot.comBlack Women Make Art 0124
Reposted by Lottie WhalenNeglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 28/01/2025Dorothy Richardson says hello from the Harry Ransom Center in Austin,Texas. The first page of her first draft of Dimple Hill, the last volume of Pilgrimage published (as part of the 1938 collected edition) during her lifetime.🧵 3407
Reposted by Lottie WhalenDecorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Catch up with our Modernist Maker series – from Mina Loy to Bauhaus weavers, Ruth Asawa, Art Smith and more! decoratingdissidence.substack.com/t/modernist-... 0102
Lottie Whalen @lwhalen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Lithograph by Katharine N Rhoades for a 1915 issue of avant-garde NY journal 291. Showing a gun positioned between a sperm & ovum, it responds to a notice in the same issue: ‘Motherhood a Crime’, about the case of a young woman who killed herself due to ‘shame’ & fear of her illegitimate pregnancy. 061
Reposted by Lottie WhalenJames Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social · 16/01/2025When I’m struggling to write, I often go back to this David Lynch quote. ‘I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath’ 734470
Lottie Whalen @lwhalen.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Bet Low (1924-2007), ‘An Island on Your Doorstep’ at Glasgow School of Art. A look at Low’s journey from social realist sketches in post-war Glasgow to painting the sublime landscapes of Scotland’s highland & Orkney Islands. 050
Reposted by Lottie WhalenDecorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 08/01/2025✨ Our first Modernist Maker feature of 2025 celebrates modern artists’ jewellery - from Peggy Guggenheim’s fabulous earring collection to Surrealist accessories crafted by a master goldsmith and jewellery made by Picasso for friends & lovers ✨ 🔗 decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/modernist-... 0104
Reposted by Lottie WhalenKit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 07/01/2025Applications for 2025 Illustrator in Residence now open at The RSL for twelve months to explore the relationship between literature and illustration. This is a paid residency of £5,000 from springtime 2025 until springtime 2026. Please share!rsliterature.orgWork with us - Royal Society of LiteratureLiterature for Everyone The RSL team is led by an ethos of respect and compassion for each other and the communities we work with, and these values are reflected in everything we do. We believe litera... 59588
Lottie Whalen @lwhalen.bsky.social · 03/01/2025‘A Happy New Year’, linocut by Marguerite Zorach, c. 1926-28 - donated to MoMA from the collection of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller 010
Lottie Whalen @lwhalen.bsky.social · 21/12/2024🌗December marks the centenary of Scottish painter Bet Low’s birth (1924-2007) 🌗 For the solstice, some beautiful examples of her moonlit landscapes, showing nightfall on Orkney and the Scottish Highlands 🌚 I profiled Low in her centenary year for Art UK: artuk.org/discover/sto... 020
Reposted by Lottie WhalenModern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 16/12/2024"Tea is served" "Girl employees" (adult women) posing with a brew at Lever Brothers' Port Sunlight factory in 1925, with varying levels of enthusiasm From magazine 'Industrial Welfare' ( mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/IWS/... ) - a great source of photos of working conditions & factory facilities 0519
Lottie Whalen @lwhalen.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Nicola L, ‘I am the Last Woman Object’ at Camden Arts Centre. Witty, subversive takes on sex & gender played out in pleather & fake fur. 130
Reposted by Lottie WhalenHyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 12/12/2024The revival of traditional Ghanaian crafts like indigo dyeing could transform the country’s most marginalized regions into vibrant economic hubs.hyperallergic.comPreserving Indigo and Woven Grass Practices in Northern GhanaDespite a lack of investment in the region’s cultural practices, artisans are looking for ways to make local craft economically sustainable for their communities. 0182
Reposted by Lottie WhalenMoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Irene Rice Pereira, White Lines, 1942 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont… 213221
Reposted by Lottie WhalenRachel Hamada @rachelhamada.bsky.social · 03/12/2024❤️🔥 Jasleen Kaur, on winning the Turner Prize: “I’ve been wondering why artists are required to dream up liberation in the gallery but when that dream meets life we are shut down” youtu.be/6RoLMAf37qYyoutu.beTurner Prize 2024 Jasleen KaurYouTube video by chunkymark 113263
Lottie Whalen @lwhalen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Maud Sulter, ‘you are my kindred spirit’ at Glasgow’s Tramway. A beautifully curated show of Sulter’s ‘living archive’, exploring lost communities, gaps in archive, cultural erasure - & down the road from the Gorbals, where Sulter grew up & filmed her boarded up home for ‘No Oxford Spires’ 031
Reposted by Lottie WhalenDecorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Our monthly modernist digest looks at the work of the Omega Workshops, inspired by a visit to Radical Modernity: From Bloomsbury to Charleston at Sotheby’s - our faves inc. Wyndham Lewis’ striking orange robe & Vanessa Bell’s The Party (the painting thought to have inspired Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway!) 1143
Reposted by Lottie WhalenWild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · 20/11/2024📚We're reopening to unagented manuscripts in January. We really encourage LGBTQ+ folk, marginalised and underrepresented writers, disabled, non-London based authors, authors over 40, and writers from working class backgrounds to submit to us. 17190111
Lottie Whalen @lwhalen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024❄️ A painting for a snowy day in the UK - Georgia O’Keeffe, Black Door With Snow (1953-1955) ❄️ 0112