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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

also, you reminded me I have this, which I forgot about and should have read before my trip - it looks perfect! 😣

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

George! Thank you Gilly! He joined my cousin's tiny sailing boat at first light, 500 miles off the coast of Bermuda and heading to the UK... we'll see how long he sticks around 🙏

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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 · 26/05/2025

ah, well done…I dug this out in case, but probably not enough hands!

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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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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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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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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

this is in my little pile I‘ve been building all year, to read at Christmas when art stops for a fortnight 🙏

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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 · 19/11/2024

Tony Leung talking to his soap in Chungking Express is 😘

Tony Leung in a bathroom, giving his well-used bar of soap a pep talk

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

gosh - a baby! I did the same, found this whilst searching for something else - growing out an ill-advised suedehead cut

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

in 2020 I persuaded my kid and his mates to give up 'modern life' for lent...they loved it (but I guess they knew that the playstation was waiting, down the line)

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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 · 13/11/2024

this is perfect, I'm currently working on this artwork by Raimond Chaves - 71 vinyl records... Thank you!

clusters of vinyl records in sleeves, held against a white wall with a clear acrylic-type covering for protection

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

Head of Leon Kossoff, 1957 charcoal and chalk on paper, private collection

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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 · 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

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

here's a nice little touch/memory example I found in the Silver Jews song 'I remember me', that you maybe know of - I played it on a loop when I first came across it

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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

I absolutely am going to bid on something as a memento... maybe 'A Ceramic Bowl and Its Contents'

a ceramic lattice bowl holding 6 small pinecones

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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 · 22/10/2023

it had this as a mantra next - I've no idea....

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

🙏 better than what I got from googling - 'the boys' 🤮

a description from google about what performance underwear is

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

in the 70s, when I was tiny and my parents still at uni, we had one of these 'pulleymaids' as a dryer was way too ££. But the house we're renting in Oxford for the next two years has a combi washer/dryer and it's vile - it will break me!

a light metal frame with four wooden slats, that hangs from the ceiling and from which clothes hang to air-dry. It is raised and lowered via a pulley system.

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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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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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