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

I absolutely cannot wait. Thank you too - that upcoming Radius exhibition sounds very my cup of tea and I probably wouldn't have found it :)

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

thank you - it's my first trip there - long overdue!

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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 · 26/08/2026

sixteen-yr-old-me had heard only this version - still love it 🦇🖤

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

calcium carbonate tubes from marine worms - they live inside them

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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

many years ago, when we did the Muybridge exhibition at Tate Britain, I got to edit bits of film with Michael Wilson - he was asking my opinion on where to cut and I just about fainted!

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

I love it when this happens- I've mapped out a whole US trip I plan to do all because I saw one photo from 100yrs ago- those connections firing off like synapses on a jolly! I'll look up the book 🙏 And I have more (literal) digging around to do in SF, so maybe we can dig a bit together when I'm back

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

I think that's understandable. It actually shifted the whole flavour of my stay in California and after visiting I began exploring all kinds of SF histories, looking for the traces at the edges of the city. It was fascinating, and kind of helped me make sense of the place...

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

I got so horribly fixated on that story when I was in the Sierras last year...

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

I think they don't have much on board he wants... he had some peanuts, crackers, and a bit of fried egg from their breakfast - I'm not sure he should be eating egg 🤔

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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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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

on.ft.com

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 · 19/01/2025

I made a replica 1914 Duncan Grant work a couple of years ago and I managed to get Roberson's rabbit skin glue, the same brand he used - it's still commercially available. But I think he picked it up in person when he was in town - they may have posted materials to artists living remotely though.

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

I saw the Lygia Clark at the Whitechapel today - really good and also compact enough for a short visit. And excellent coffee and cakes next door!

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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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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

thank you, I'll have a look - sounds lovely 🙏

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

they've even removed the paper from the top of the cake slices....that was the best thing about Pret imo

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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 · 23/11/2024

if this works well it would be super-useful for my work...

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

so much potential for heartbreaks though for the omitees, you can't do it!

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

this is a whole conservation area not currently investigated, as far as I know....

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I like to think he finds a good stick at the start of his walk, but i bet he uses Nordic walking poles....

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

it's the Richard Long version of the medium is the message. or something.

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

(we can borrow the big cushions from the pipilotti rist exhibit and take them in and lounge around, bathing in the light - you'll remember it forever)

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

it's so exciting, I haven't really *loved* one of our shows in ages but this is heaven. If you want more visits then I'll take you round anytime 😊

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

it's gorgeous, I'm moving in for the next few months 💕

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modartconserve @modartconserve.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

we have a Do Ho Suh exhibition at Tate Mod next year - come see it with me

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

I guess art, like rust, never sleeps - but it lets me ignore it for two weeks a year...

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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 · 21/11/2024

oh, I agree - let’s swap! Seriously, the feel of carving plastazote with a sharp butter knife is one of the best experiences in a conservation studio so we can’t relinquish…

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

I've petitioned for so long for one of these machines, but we're still using old butter knives that we sharpen on a whetstone. It has a certain charm, but still....

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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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