Reposted by Will WilesDavid Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 20hAnita 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...bbc.co.ukAnita Brookner on Art: 100 Great PaintingsAnita 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. 26524
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026static.klipy.comM. Gustave (Ralph Fiennes) Says 'Very Good'Alt: M. Gustave in Grand Budapest Hotel (Ralph Fiennes) Says 'Very Good' 010
Reposted by Will WilesWill Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Remember, we must separate the art from the artist 052
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I happened to reread this the other day while ploughing through (& recycling) a heap of old LRBs, and yes it is very good 020
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Me too. A gratuitous act of self-harm, for zero benefit. 050
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026In the new @apollo-magazine.com I salute Denys Lasdun's National Theatre on its 50th birthday: apollo-magazine.com/national-the...apollo-magazine.comHow Denys Lasdun made the National Theatre a palace for the peopleAs it celebrates its half century, the brutalist landmark on London’s South Bank still provokes and delights, writes Will Wiles 161
Reposted by Will WilesSimon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 05/10/202699p? You simply cannot go wrong. A wonderful book and perhaps the most consequential SF novel of the year. 41810
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Quite right, but isn't it deeply embarrassing for the party that this statement has to be made? I'm embarrassed. It's a debacle. 040
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I'm glad you've said this because it has bothered me for years 1120
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Musk colonists terrorised by the corsairs of Space Watford 010
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Deimos, the smaller moon, is smaller than every traditional county apart from Rutland 250
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Mars's moon Phobos has a surface area almost exactly the same as the area of Hertfordshire 3234
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026They're still very common here, in fact I think I hear one now 110
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yes, I have never enjoyed the 21st century version of the show (Robots of Death is Tom Baker) 010
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"Robots of Death" has a Terrazza sofa by Ubald Klug in it! No idea how that came about, presumably it came out of a props warehouse 110
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026No Fantasycon for me this year, I'm afraid - much as I was excited about a trip to Glasgow, a city I adore, the sums didn't add up. Next year, I hope. 040
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026One huge advantage about an Amazon description being full of inaccurate information and apparently impossible to change is it clearly marks out exactly where some of this remarkable machine insight is coming from. "I particular enjoyed" - not in the book, try again 050
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Allusions to turn-of-the-century American literature have no place in the Alien/Predator franchise, Adam 020
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026static.klipy.comSamwise to Frodo: You Have to Fight ItAlt: Samwise to Frodo: You Have to Fight It 120
Reposted by Will WilesJohn Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026BTW if you enjoy the podcast and fancy leaving a nice review somewhere it’d really help, because it’s not on a network x 021
Reposted by Will WilesJohn Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Postmodern pranks and outrageous fantasy art: the new Monstrosities Mon Amour with Will Wiles is half an hour of cheery excess podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...podcasts.apple.comMonstrosities Mon Amour: Onyx House, Mile End, with Will WilesPodcast Episode · Monstrosities Mon Amour · 23 September · 29min 1146
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I had a lot of fun talking about Onyx House, jewel of Mile End, with John for Monstrosity Mon Amour. And also about the rippling muscles and chainmail bikinis of Boris Vallejo. 020
Reposted by Will WilesApollo @apollo-magazine.com · 26/09/2026‘One building is architecture but two buildings is townscape,’ wrote Gordon Cullen in his influential 1960s guide to urban planning. @willwiles.bsky.social praises Cullen’s humane approach to design and the immensely skilful drawings in which he conveyed that vision.buff.lyWhat today’s urban planners can learn from a 1960s visionaryGordon Cullen’s drawings for Townscape, his guide to urban planning, lend the subject a beguiling romanticism 042
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It sounded very convincing when Tony Montana said it 010
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026First you get the second novel, then you get the flat. then you get the womenstatic.klipy.comScarface: Tony Montana Laughing on PhoneAlt: Tony Montana laughing on the phone in "Scarface" 130
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I wonder if any SFF authors who follow me have considered this? I'm sure Jonathan would like to hear you bsky.app/profile/jona... 110
Reposted by Will WilesOwen Booth @owenbooth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is predictably wonderful. And bonus points to @willwiles.bsky.social for the Chris Achilleos shout out 232