The Tories’ evisceration of Sure Start should be a national scandal theneweuropean.co.uk/the-tories-evi…

My nephew writes a cracking complaint

And here is the restored ornemental cross, only piece of #NotreDame’s roof that survived the fire, ready to travel from Normandy to Paris and be fixed on the apse!

Thames & Hudson celebrates 75 years of publishing excellence with a year-long programme highlighting its innovative art books and famous collaborations, including the best-selling 'The Book of Kells.' Thames & Hudson ow.ly/mPhj50Rzhj1

The North American color cat is out of the bag. 🎨 🎨 🎨 #artistspalettes #TheArtistsPalette #colour #color #colourhistory #colorhistory Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s

I wrote about art book publisher extraordinaire Thames & Hudson The Art Newspaper celebrating 75 years this month and still resolutely independent

#NowYouSeeUs Tate Britain is a solid lesson in why we should be v suspicious of institutional rulemaking, the lengths they went to to keep women out is frankly staggering! The i paper inews.co.uk/culture/arts/n…

my favorite sister michael quotes from derry girls, a thread:

Are you a young classicist? This event is especially for you! It's online and organised by The Chorus, a Classics for All network for 16-25 year-olds. It's online so you can tune in wherever you are. Please just sign up here classicsforall.tfaforms.net/5090212?EID=70… Classics for All

La Rondine, with the Cluj-Napoca Opera at the Bucharest Opera Festival: my review Opera Now magazine. Such an under-rated piece, in need of more stagings as fine as this one. gramophone.co.uk/opera-now/revi…

Don't miss Roger Mayne The Courtauld: a very special photography exhibition so carefully and lovingly curated, full of nuance and joy, and also a chance to see a real craftsman of the darkroom at work. Here's my five star review The i paper inews.co.uk/culture/arts/r…

I've been writing about photography a lot recently, and was lucky enough to see #MASILugano's marvellous exhibition Eye to Eye: Homage to Ernst #Scheidegger for The New European - Think Without Borders. Always worth buying a copy, but this piece looks especially gorgeous in print theneweuropean.co.uk/ernst-scheideg…

★★★★★ Roger Mayne, Youth: Inside the freedom of postwar childhood 🖋 Florence Hallett trib.al/n8OY6H7

The Dutch painter and agent provocateur #JacquelinedeJong died on 29 June aged 85. Her interview for The New European - Think Without Borders was a dream - and it may well have been the last she gave. It's a great read - thanks Jacqueline, RIP x theneweuropean.co.uk/the-last-testa…

thought I’d share this golden clip while everyone is aimlessly waiting

★★★★ Barbie: The Exhibition, Design Museum review: I was sceptical – but I was wrong 🖋️ Florence Hallett trib.al/XWEen0b

★★★★ Leonora Carrington: The female surrealist Britain never understood 🖋 Florence Hallett trib.al/ADvGrry

Bombed, suppressed, destroyed… but the work of Ukrainian artists goes on, writes Florence Hallett theneweuropean.co.uk/the-art-of-sur…