Since I have been writing about lilacs and pinks for a new book about the Royal Pavilion, I think it is time to put on my #springweekendshoes .
How long will the sunshine last, I wonder?

Spring colour(s)! Some really nice shots of The Book of Colour Concepts (my extended lockdown project) taken by the staff at TASCHEN shop in Berlin. taschen.com/en/books/class…

From Color Palettes to Cyanotypes: Delve into the world of art and botanical beauty with ‘Anna Atkins. Cyanotypes‘, ‘Basilius Besler. The Garden at Eichstätt‘ and ‘The Book of Colour Concepts‘, all available to order on taschen.com or in our stores around the world.

Chocolate? Coffee? Boredom? Dirt? What does the colour brown mean to you? Read on to find out what our colour expert, Author & Royal Pavilion Curator #AlexandraLoske reveals about all things #BROWN ...

rosamagazine.co.uk/brown/

Dr Alexandra Loske @brightonmuseums
Image Fergus Hare

🌈 Quattro secoli di teorie del colore raccolte in due volumi illustrati
Con: The Book of Colour Concepts Alexandra Loske Dr Alexandra Loske + Sarah Lowengard TASCHEN
di frizzifrizzi
#colori #TeorieDelColore #Illustrazione

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I have a new talk coming up, in which I air my fascination for artists' palettes. It will premiere Brighton Museums on 26 June, 11am. Info & tickets:
Artists' Palettes Through Time: From Rembrandt’s golden browns to Winifred Nicholson’s prismatic violets brightonmuseums.org.uk/event/alexandr…

The Royal Pavilion Brighton Museums in 1809:'though true in architectural proportion and chaste in effect [it] does not give... even a faint idea of the magnificence which is so admirably displayed within: the latter never fails to excite the most rapturous astonishment' (Attree)

A short piece on blots, dots and spots in colour history for Chromobase, database of the ERC Chromotope project which explores the cultural impact of new colours in the 1850s: 'Mary Gartside’s abstract afterlife? Blots in George Barnard’s paint manual'
chromobase.huma-num.fr/narratives/mar…

Have been given a painting by a friend (Jane Chapman) and I love it. 'Newton Nature Reserve, Isle of Wight', oil on canvas.

Icy blues, fiery pinks and oranges, bright yellows and greens.. Gustav Klimt is an underrated colourist.
This 1917 painting, Portrait of Fräulein Lieser, is coming up for auction soon, having been in private collections since 1925. #klintimkinsky imkinsky.com/en/press/redis…

Very pleased to now be a member of this truly international group: The Study Group on Environmental Colour Design (ECD) of the International Colour Association (AIC).
They very kindly immediately put the Mary Gartside monograph on their website: aicecd.org/index.php?arti…

My review of the Science Museum clocks show from Beijing's National Palace Museum (and a reminder to self to put somewhat less fancy examples in this house forward)
apollo-magazine.com/zimingzhong-cl…

'Machen sie bitte eine typische Handbewegung.'

Happy Easter! We hope you have a fABBAlous long weekend! Our new exhibition ABBA: One Week in Brighton is now open.

🎟️ brightonmuseums.org.uk/event/abba-one…

ROSA Magazine Spring Issue 2024 is out this week. Subscribe today for the full picture of Sussex's cultural programme this season and much more. FREE signed collectors' edition of 'The Arts in Sussex' map by Helen Cann. bit.ly/BuyROSA

Ingeborg Bachmann auf der Spanischen Treppe in Rom.

Don’t miss poet and environmental writer Nancy Campbell in conversation with Jeremy Page at All Saints, Lewes, this Tuesday. She will be talking about her writing including Thunderstone, a memoir of life after lockdown in an old Buccaneer caravan. Ticket info in bio

Many of the colour books photographed for this work are from the collection of the Colour Library RCA at the Royal College of Art .

If you zoom right into JMW Turner's Brighton from the Sea (c.1829) at Petworth House & Park you can just about make out the domes of the Royal Pavilion Brighton Museums on the horizon line.

Dr Alexandra Loske Here's a pretty great article my cousin wrote about the origins of Little Blue and Little Yellow. publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/ch…