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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Toni del Renzio had an eventful life: born in Tsarskoe Selo; married Ithell Colquhoun; fathered quadruplets aged 70; died in Margate. And much besides... Toni del Renzio | Graphic design | The Guardian share.google/UK7mMLG5QkY4...

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Obituary: Toni del Renzio

Obituary: Zealous champion of surrealism who developed his artistic ideas in fashion and graphic design.

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oh, this is definitely worth a look - especially, but not only, for those like me who never got over seeing The Owl Service in childhood.

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

. . . and his ‘Hazel in Rose and Gold’ (1918), Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool:

John Lavery’s ‘Hazel in Rose and Gold’ (1918), Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Waxwing Feast, Kent Ambler.

Waxwing on blueberry bush, green background, woodcut.

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Had a little outing to the Williamson Art Gallery in Birkenhead - lots of interesting things to see

Ceramic plaque made by the Della Robbia pottery, showing Pandora opening the box, white on a blue background

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CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oct 8th - A week before she was murdered, Mrs Emily French made Leonard Vole the sole beneficiary of her will. 📽️📅 Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

3 Screenshots from the movie "Witness for the Prosecution" (1957): First, a courtroom scene with a judge addressing a witness in front of the jury. The subtitle reads, "Were you aware of the arrangements Mrs. French made to dispose of her money?" Second, a close-up of an older woman in a dark hat and patterned attire, speaking into a microphone. The subtitle reads, "Yes. He was to have all her money, she told him,". Third, a similar close-up of the same woman, looking slightly to the side with a serious expression. The subtitle reads, "- When did this take place? - On October 8."

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In the 'The Lustre Bowl,' (1908) William Nicholson plays with the shining contrast of the bowl against a dark black background. He would set up a still life and leave it untouched for days, absorbing every element. The flash of light lifts the picture out of the ordinary.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Anita Brookner’s scholarly, sharply observant commentaries on paintings by Delacroix, Ingres, Rigaud, Vigée Le Brun, David and Cézanne. On BBC iplayer for the next four weeks. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Anita Brookner on Art: 100 Great Paintings

Anita Brookner shares her unique insights on some of the finest works by the world’s greatest painters in a compilation of her contributions to the 1981 BBC series 100 Great Paintings.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

René Magritte, The lovers, 1928

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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

St Marys, tucked within the fields between Thaxted and Stansted Airport. One of the oldest churches in Essex; serves a population of about 40. Today the flights into Stansted came in low overhead. So I made a film about that - the near millennium of stone under the jet engines every three minutes.

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good to get to Compton Verney again.

Weird clay animal heads on sticks at the Folk Art collection.

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No, he just wasn’t from a moneyed background

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What struck me in this very well-written and thoughtful account was the extent to which MRJ was constantly hustling - always on the hunt for the next scholarship or fellowship or post of any kind with an income, borrowing from his relations etc etc….

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“She wrote about male vulnerability better than any man of her generation.” Andrew O’Hagan on Anita Brookner in the new @lrb.co.uk

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I remember becoming helplessly giggly over an essay that talked about Macbeth and his friend Banjo

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

To mark the Autumn Equinox, I offer you a biscuit tin. Designed in 1958 by CF Tunnicliffe

A large rectangular biscuit tin with a decorative lid showing red squirrel perched on a tree stump in front of a vivid blue ground

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Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Book buyer’s disease, the stages: 1. Find a batch of books in a charity shop from a crime writer I haven’t read 2. Think ‘I should buy one and see if I like it’ 3. Notice they are 4 for £1 4. Think ‘What if I really like the first book?’ 5. Buy 16 books

A pile of sixteen paperback books by Dorothy Gilman in a vertical stack.

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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Eileen Agar, Marine Object, 1939 botfrens.com/collections/14375/cont…

Presented by the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1990

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was going to tag that post “spinster September” but in the circs it felt a bit on the nose 🤣

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Seems all too apt that I read quite a bit of Hermione Lee’s biography of Anita Brookner while awake in the small hours with a migraine… Thought I might have hallucinated this description of AB’s living/working arrangements, but no.

By that time - in or around 1995 - she had bought a second flat on the same floor, corner-on to Number 6, facing the street at the front. Number 8 was on the same plan as Number 6 - a bedroom, a living room, a kitchen and a bathroom - and was also full of books. It looked exactly the same as the other flat, but the main room had a big desk and a typewriter where she sat with her back to the window. From the mid 1990s until she stopped writing, this was where she worked, filling her ring-bound notebooks with rapid, close-filled lines of handwritten pages before they were typed up.

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Shifty is putting it mildly…How many hours teaching do they expect from you on 0.5?

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I suspect it's the fact that I'm currently reading the Anita Brookner biography that's making that seem appealing

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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you've seen it? (alt text - A Canterbury Tale, in particular the barely even whispered “why?” when Alison Smith finds out her late fiancé’s father is asking for her. Just the right balance of hope and fear)

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bloody hell. Just appalling, the whole thing.

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What a shitty situation. So very sorry.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sunday plans: William Strang

Woman sat on wooden backed, green cushioned chair, she is dressed in a dark blue gown, she has her arms and legs crossed, she holds a red book open in one hand, she has black hair pinned up. Behind her there is a small clock and painting on the wall. Painting.

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Always here for appreciation of Anton Walbrook

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🔥👇

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Believe there was a Penguin, but have never seen it.

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Very much looking forward to that pair getting their comeuppance

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Such a disturbing novel - didn’t know it had been published with that (rather blunt) title

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

And off it goes, Rachel Malik’s Personal Anthology, coming down early for dinner, wearing an antique bridal gown, turning the heavy signet ring on its little finger, never walking as far as the forbidden Reservoir, moved almost to ecstasy by the scrupulously plotted fate that would redeem it…

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A Personal Anthology, by Rachel Malik

‘Theme of the Traitor and Hero’ by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Anthony Kerrigan (First published in Spanish in Sur in February 1944.

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Ah, that’s annoying (as is their habit of making you read stuff online rather than downloading it).

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 29/08/2026

'Dazzle camouflage on an Elco 80-ft Motor Torpedo Boat 1942'

dazzle camo on a boat. straight line make identification hard.

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CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Aug 29th - George Kaplan registered at the Whittier in Detroit. 📽️📅 North by Northwest (1959)

1 Screenshots from the movie "North by Northwest" (1959): First, two men in suits stand in a richly decorated study with bookshelves, a lamp, and paintings; one man reads from a piece of paper while the subtitle reads "August the 29th, George Kaplan of Boston registered at the Whittier in Detroit."

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Allen Lane, co-founder of Penguin Books, extracts a book from the brand new "Penguincubator" – a vending machine with a range of Penguin titles available for sixpence, placed outside Collet's bookshop on London's Charing Cross Road in July 1937 🗃️

b&w page with a photo of a man in a suit extracting a book from a vending machine

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Enjoyed the current exhibition at @victoriagallery.bsky.social, including prints by Lucian Freud, Celia Paul, and, new to me, Stephen Conroy www.liverpool.ac.uk/victoria-gal...

Two black and white portraits of men with dramatic shading - they have a 1950s look to me, though were done rather later. The top one is called Alchemy and the bottom one Head

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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Leonora Carrington, Saint-Martin-d'Ardèche, France. Photograph by Lee Miller (1939).

A black and white photograph of Leonora Carrington looking upward and smiling.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The first BBC repeat since NINETEEN SEVENTY-FIVE. Which is just mad.

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Reminded of the joke about John Lennon Airport - that they called it that because he couldn’t wait to get away

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

You’ll “probably” find out next week? Just cruel, keeping you hanging on so long.

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Will probably check it out at some point, tho not currently feeling the urge to go into town specially!

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Thanks - I felt similarly about the lack of humour but its oddness stayed with me. I’m not a horror fan and if I go to see Camp Miasma, it’ll mainly be for Gillian Anderson.

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