Weathering, feathering, tiding, abiding. Writer on art and culture in Glasgow; @SGSAH funded PhD at @univofstandrews, studying Nigerian art
Glasgow, Scotland
Joined May 2018
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Just wanted to say how sorry I was to hear about the death of Dr Elspeth King over the weekend.
Via her work at the People’s Palace Dr King had an enormous impact on Glasgow’s culture. What she achieved there was impressive, particularly in the face of the museum possibly being swept away for Glasgow’s motorway expansion and relentless urban renewal and how she was unfairly treated by the Glasgow Museum’s hierarchy.
To bravely hire Alasdair Gray for the Continuous Glasgow Show and to retrieve artworks and material from condemned buildings during the Comprehensive Development Area, in the face of questioning, deserves respect especially for how this added to Glasgow’s civic collection.
For the People’s Palace to be European Museum of the Year in 1981 and then British Museum of the Year in 1983 is a huge achievement. I hope that is reflected in the refurbishment of the People’s Palace and her key role is acknowledged as it deserves to be.
It is sad that Yorgos Lanthimos’s version of Poor Things omitted those key details from Alasdair Gray’s book as they absolutely summed up that era in Glasgow’s history. My condolences to Michael Donnelly and her family and friends.
ALT This is the People’s Palace and Winter Gardens on Glasgow Green. The building opened in 1989 to provide a centre for culture to the people of Glasgow’s East End. The red sandstone of the museum is being warmed in the late Autumn sunshine and can be seen against the blue sky. In the backdrop are the towers of the Hutcheson Town urban renewal programme.
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Deplorable. Forcing people who want to live and work in the UK to undertake compulsory unpaid labour.
This is a dark path Labour is taking down. But there IS an alternative.
Join me in building a welcoming country.
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ALT A tough home secretary - Mahmood will say people seeking indefinite leave to remain will have to demonstrate they have integrated and controversial to society.
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In light of the decision by Creative Scotland to close the Open Project Fund for Individuals this Friday, we have compiled the following document of support currently being offered to artists, alongside campaigns that have been set up. You can view it here:
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A few recent contenders, but I think the moment of both excruciating embarrassment & utter humiliation has arrived for the Scottish Government over the treatment of an industry which is one of the country’s biggest assets.
Lots more of this to come without a change of direction.
🚨 Biffy Clyro, Paolo Nutini, Franz Ferdinand, The Proclaimers, Karine Polwart, Mogwai, Young Fathers, Glasvegas, Frightened Rabbit, Honeyblood, Kathryn Joseph, Julie Fowlis & Fergus McCreadie join the rebellion against Scotland’s arts funding cuts. 🚨
scotsman.com/arts-and-cultur…
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We launched our archive section, interactive oral history videos and further updates, including new object photography from the National Museum of Lagos and Benin on digitalbenin.org - over the next 3 years we continue with more updates and further research. Stay tuned!
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Closing out my first full year commissioning for @ArtReview_ and have been glad to work on some great writing by equally great writers, a few of which I thought I'd collect here ↓
As ever, I'm already excited on what's to come next year with @benson_louise + @oritgat
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The plan to cut 37 out of 128 museum and collections posts in Glasgow will hold back the city’s cultural institutions for years to come apollo-magazine.com/glasgow-…
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My tribute to the wonderful Phyllida Barlow
‘She changed how we encounter sculpture’ – remembering Phyllida Barlow (1944–2023)
apollo-magazine.com/phyllida…
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Looted Artefacts on the Western art market in the era of restitution. My latest. @imodara @artlawalex @Feli_Bodenstein @SamuelReilly9
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The pioneer of Ethiopian modernism Tadesse Mesfin tells @SamuelReilly9 about his years in the USSR and his depictions of brightly-dressed women at market
@addisfineart
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World’s largest vertical letter file
Offices of the Central Social Institution, Prague, 1937
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A century of art from Northern Ireland inevitably paints a complex picture, writes @KearneyDominic apollo-magazine.com/northern…
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Apollo is proud to reveal the Apollo 40 Under 40 Art & Tech – the 8th edition of our list of inspirational artists and creative innovators. Explore the full list here, supported by @BNPParibas apollo-magazine.com/40-40-ar…
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We all know about carcinization: shelled creatures with many legs tend to evolve into crabs.
But have you heard of mustelification?
It's a phenomenon where carnivorans develop slender bodies, short legs and small triangular heads.
In other words, they evolve into weasels.
ALT land crab with claws raised
ALT Stoat looking out from beneath a wooden deck
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There is genuinely no worse or total evidence lacking psephological argument ever than, Labour's 2017 surge was based on people voting Labour because they wanted to them lose.
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In 2019, when I curated Ghana’s first pavilion for the Venice Biennale, Ghana Freedom, the theme was examine the legacies and trajectories of freedom from Independence, and the idea was to do an investigation here in Ghana also.
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Superb cutaway of Piccadilly Circus tube station by Renzo Picasso, 1929. It's almost spot-on... bar one detail: the traffic & trains have been reversed, just as the artist would have been used to seeing in Italy. My piece on London Cutaways for @londonist:
londonist.com/london/transpo…
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C.W. Heriot, ‘Waiting for Godot at the Criterion Theatre, London’, 30 Nov 1955
"I visited this play last night and endured two hours of angry boredom...but where the whole text is more or less offensive and in doubtful taste, no useful purpose could be served by pruning..." 1/3
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'Upper mid-rise' in Glasgow. Observe the apparent ease with which these masterful architects articulated 8-10 storeys, humanising enormous buildings through ingenious manipulation of the classical language. Continuous build line, vertical emphasis, moderate plot width.
