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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

looking for ideas for my upcoming Delft trip - other than searching for ce (lost, I'm sure, but that won't stop me) petit pan de mur jaune and lusting over old tiles... any recs for walks/sights/food would be much appreciated - thank you 💙

a small patch of yellow paint from Vermeer's View of Delft

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

could someone help identify this bird please?

a small bird with yellow and khaki/grey plumage, on a teak deck

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Leigh Bowery’s diary is not entirely as I’d anticipated - which I suppose is exactly right…

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Can’t be repeated often enough ‘The UK’s creative industries are vital to the economy. Valued at £124bn, they are worth more than the life sciences, aerospace and automotive industries combined. Arts and culture alone contribute an impressive £34.6bn.’ on.ft.com/42hzVmL

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The UK should take a leaf from France’s book to boost arts funding

Tax breaks for corporate sponsors can benefit the creative sector at a time of dwindling public funds

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

cherry pie and a movie kind of an evening 🖤

a pie on a plate on a wooden kitchen work top with pots and bottles in the background

a slice of cherry pie with some cream, on a plate

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

messaging old friends with memories of seeing Eraserhead, Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart at the cinema together - hard to explain now how thrilling it was to be seventeen and to fall in that space. All our changes were there. RIP David Lynch

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chigeek.bsky.social @chigeek.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I don’t think “the kids” can understand how radical it was that Twin Peaks was on network tv. It premiered to *34.6 million* viewers. Crazy, man. Agent Cooper was on to something when he said “Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it. Don't wait for it. Just let it happen.” RIP

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

A new indie bookshop opened today in Norwich. The Holloway is on St Lawrence Steps, St Benedicts Street. Second hand, zines, indie, radical and nature writing... records, film & music nights too. The good stuff. #supportsmallpublishers

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Peter Kennard’s Filofax, recto and verso. It is just as you’d imagine.

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

6 words I hate: playful vibrant literary gobsmacked passed (died) date (verb)

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Media consumption of the past.

A detail from a painting of John Duns Scotus: his head is turned towards an opened book on the left. More details in the reposted thread.

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

snow day from the Oxford Tube ❄️

a blurry image of a field and hedge with a light coating of snow, taken from a coach window

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

a starter pack of conservators from various disciplines - please let me know if you'd like to be added, and who I've missed... go.bsky.app/4HjAJJX

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

What is one of your comfort movies ? (I pretty much have only comfort movies these days)

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

all that hard-won/hard-worn looking, second sheet adhered under the first so he could work right through the picture plane to get lower... RIP Frank Auerbach 1931-2024

paper covered with charcoal, with a second layer of paper beneath

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

conservation is about loss- documenting it, imagining it, attempting to manage it- so this collage is an *extra* example- types of loss listed in words set down by now obsolete machinery, and the passage of time described in the discoloured adhesive Carolee Schneemann collage

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Isabellettriste @minxmarple.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Also: the materials you use speak, you should be aware of what they say. / they have narrative, implications, they are freighted / and everything sways meaning in the close read

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now. Steam-train fire-girl Recording studio manager Dealer of vintage cowboy boots Forklift driver Men's tailoring consultant Potato farmer in Ukraine

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

one of the sketchbook pages not on display in the Mike Kelley exhibition at Tate Modern - this was one of my favourites. what do you hear - a big voice - wrong

a lined notebook page with some notes and diagrams of a megaphone-type instrument, written in black ink

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

thinking about breathing in the essence of JMW Turner by smelling his sketchbooks reminded me of this video, where the makeup artist Lisa Eldridge 'eats' molecules of Audrey Hepburn ♥️ a material culture/makeup clash - pure heaven. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gkK...

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I got Audrey Hepburn’s Lipstick Case!!

YouTube video by Lisa Eldridge

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

we took down the Expressionists vinyl at Tate Modern and it was briefly this beautiful ♥️

a wall at Tate Modern before an exhibition vinyl has been installed. The wall is patchy with old paint and filler, mostly grey with some pale pinks and blues in places.

a close-up of the wall showing pale pink paint

a close-up of the wall with some faint lettering visible

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

I'm planning a session exploring artworks via touch and smell. For the invitations I'd like to capture some Turner sketchbook scent in tiny glass vials - is this likely possible? If I left the smelliest book in a sealed plexi box for a while with an open vial would some scent just sort of fall in?

an image of a sketchbook by JMW Turner, open at a double-spread showing graphite sketches of buildings and ships

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

what just happened? Exhausted and a little stunned waking up this morning post-Mike Kelley install at Tate Modern... Applauding the registrars, art handlers, technicians and conservators who helped make it happen - what an astonishing team we have.

a snippet from one of Mike Kelley's notebooks, showing an ink sketch of a tube in bed with the words 'A tube in bed / get up - I'm already up'

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

prompted by @jeremymillar.bsky.social’s recent Turner tweet I got this out for a closer look. The light brown splodge - I like to think he dipped his finger in the bloody waves and just splatted it on the paper. A Harpooned Whale 1845 JMW Turner. Graphite and watercolour on paper. Tate collection.

an unframed watercolour painting by JMW Turner depicting a harpooned whale, with some loosely sketched boats in the background

A close-up of JMW Turner’s ‘A Harpooned Whale’

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 13/04/2024

sitting watching sunlight pass across agate ware 🩶

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

*obsessed* with the person that lived in this house, the contents of which are being sold this evening. I know nothing about them, but I really wish someone would take the whole lot and keep it together 🙏 www.easyliveauction.com/catalogue/dc...

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

ridiculously gorgeous Ruth Asawa shadows at the de Young, SF - petition for Ruth Asawa work to always be shown against concrete 🤍

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

lovely little Eva Hesse/Sol LeWitt catalogue from Moe’s in Berkeley, CA - I need a whole extra luggage allowance for all the wonderful things I found there…

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

here's Carolee's Hearts and Hands for Ana Mendieta today.

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

I've been deconstructing old polaroids for work..and in the process made an instagram account with my son of some of the nicest from our collection instagram.com/smallandolda...

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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

The only valiant way to complain is to create. —William Blake

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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

Before you say something mean about Henry Kissinger, take a breath and see if you can think of something meaner

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

I've long been infuriated about the price of a brew and a biscuit in our leading cultural institutions and now have decided to do something about it – the campaign for a #onequidtea starts here, with my op-ed in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Why I’m campaigning for the £1 cuppa to be available all around Britain | Luke Turner

I’ve done a tea-and-biscuit survey of the country’s cultural institutions and high-street chains – and I’m afraid we’re being taken for mugs, says the author Luke Turner

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Morley College & Bloomsbury: together with a young Virginia Woolf who taught at London's Morley College (a working men's & women's college), her sister, Vanessa, taught drawing, her brother Thoby & his friend Clive Bell taught Latin, & brother Adrian taught history & Greek.

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Six thousand bombs dropped on two million people people, half of them children, in an area twenty-five miles long by five miles wide. Forty-eight bombs per square mile, one every two hundred metres or so.

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

artist folk - if you were to make a collage on a canvas that is already under tension on a strainer, would you perhaps make small incisions in the canvas to compensate for the differing tensions in slightly damp collage pieces as they dry? I'm trying to find an explanation...

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

The old dialects often hold a more intimate language to map our relationship with the stones. Hookland gifts us 'hicud' – a word for the specific skin-tingle you experience while crossing the threshold of a stone circle. – Dr. K. Brophy

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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

Today I visited a gallery and saw the cover of Foucault: A Very Short Introduction.

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

accidental Twombly behind the cheese shop in Rosendale, NY

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 03/08/2023

spending my summer vacation conserving Carolee Schneemann collages in upstate New York - the best time! #conservation

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