Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026tfw you voted Lula 13 early on a Sunday morning (but in London, not São Paulo) 000
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I raised my eyes again, Neville Richter’s translated sculptures right in front of me 3/3 000
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Not trusting my eyes, or wanting proof, I reached for my camera (i.e., phone) and the sculptures vanished — nothing there, just an unmoving, intensely white screen. By then I had lost all confidence in my brain, but took a picture anyway. Ghostly shapes appeared 2/3 110
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026To understand how surprised I was, there’re two things you need to know: I’m obsessed with Riemenschneider; I didn’t know there was Carving at the City & Guilds School. So when I walked away from oil-on-canvas and saw what looked like V&A’s Riemenschneiders, it startled me 1/3 110
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Structure, structure, structure was very much the first thing that jumped at me when I first encountered image and language models. Great discussion here ⬇️ 010
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026And that’s me behind the mic (out of shot, ongoing series) 000
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Lise Bouissiere’s Polypodium V, also at VisionLondon’s ‘Sorge’ exhibition, 34 Mortimer Street. (Photo in the first post by the curator, Senem Cagla Bilgin-Keys) 000
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Grain Mother, detail @chantalpowell.bsky.social 100
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026‘You’ll recognise me by the cut of my clothes and the carapace on my back’ <My Life as a Turtle> 110
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Just got an emai about it! (I’m on their mailing list) 110
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Cannot be unseen (FT headline: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis steps down to become chair) 020
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 26/07/2026When they said I couldn’t stay I imagined hiding under a bed if begging and/or bribery didn’t work 010
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Great public health comms in Brazil after Fonseca’s victory against Djokovic — the vaccination mascot is saying ‘our vaxxed guy won’ 061
Reposted by Vania SchiffPantéa Javidan, JD, PhD @pjavidan.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Makes good point that despite the far-right MO of catastrophizing—that the nation is irredeemably divided, headed for disaster, & far-right is the only savior—“the UK is generally very comfortable being a multi-ethnic society.” In 2020, 93% rejected the idea that you have to be White to be British 26218
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Absolutely heartbroken. She had the most intelligent, animated eyes. RIP VALIE EXPORT 020
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Vote counted in the early hours — a v good local result 💚 000
Reposted by Vania SchiffReading Museum @readingmuseum.bsky.social · 08/05/2026We have loaned a remarkable object to the V&A’s exhibition The Music Is Black - an African thumb piano made using a Huntley & Palmers biscuit tin. This early 20th century instrument transforms an iconic Reading export into a living piece of African musical heritage. 🎹 1992.162.18 #FridayFinds 1263
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Fingers crossed! Hand-delivering mine today as I can’t bear Royal Mail uncertainties 000
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 01/05/2026close reading (studies in white, iris ‘white city’, 2/2) 010
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 01/05/2026close reading (studies in white, iris ‘white city’, 1/2) 000
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 26/04/2026It is! Translation quality can be patchy though, but v much worth reading 000
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 26/04/2026🚨 ‘Clear your diaries!’ PSA 🚨 Frank Bourke as Man Ray in This Is Not a Murder Mystery. Weds 29th, Channel 4 and elsewhere, not to be missed 🍿 010
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Glad to see it more widely available — great book, great writer 000
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Me too. You just want to know more about the mind and thinking behind it. Btw, iirc he only directed the last ep of Season 3, which might explain a lot. 110
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 23/04/2026A must read then :) There’s some fab food and drink too. A gem of a book in 69 v well written pages. 000
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Third series could have done with some rewriting/editing. Some holes really bothered me, and that extended interrogation sequence could have been a text message lol Still some pertinent points. Second one was the best I think 200
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 23/04/2026It’s becoming hard to differentiate between dystopian fact and dystopian fiction 😬 010
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Same here. Just had a look at the earlier reviews — they mostly found it outlandish and/or stretching the limits of credibility, even for sci-fi. Third-series reviewers are finally seeing the light. V curious about who advised the writer on tech matters. 110
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Helen DeWitt’s The English Understand Wool — fun and by a brilliant woman, if not long. On money, class, tailoring, mauvais ton, cosmopolitan lives, national characteristics, and a plot twist or two. 210
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 23/04/2026As seen by bees and butterflies — Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s tapestries from the Pollinator Pathmaker series, based on garden designs that respond to the pollinators’ needs @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social 000
Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Visiting St Leonards soon, wish it were open already 010
![Photo of smiling Fonseca with a tennis racket. Headline in Portuguese from the Correio Braziliense translates as “Zé Gotinha [Brazil’s vaccination mascot] congratulates João Fonseca and teases Djokovic: ‘The vaxxed one won’”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mw5kphxpm676akqucoql5ntn/bafkreib3kd2n4xxz3uavww4nzzvjdn6mj7kgwd6ewee3njrovstxacvmtu)
![Guardian article screenshot:
The watcher, Television
This Is Not a Murder Mystery: cosy-crime meets art in an irresistibly surreal Belgian drama
Famous artists including Magritte are suspects in this glossy, grisly whodunnit - and it's loads of fun
[Photo of an actor as Magritte, who is smoking a pipe. The blue sky and white clouds mimic the style of Magritte’s paintings]
Photo caption: Rude awakening ... René Magritte (Pierre Gervais) uncovers a killing in This Is Not a Murder Mystery.
Photograph: Channel 4](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mw5kphxpm676akqucoql5ntn/bafkreicwog5nn2gv7iwsbxhln2mllngyl4dhzxsp7qzcihfnyh2q6qv6ru)
