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📣Timothy Hunter (Tim Hunter), from Magdalen College, brings us "Clerical and Chivalric Attitudes to Colour from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Centuries: Codification, Proliferation and Symbolism" Una_Europa #ColorfulSouls

One of the most important early frescoes in Rome

Just heard Fiona Hill on #DesertIslandDiscs. What an amazing woman! Well worth catching on BBC Sounds

"I thought I was just going to be like the underdog, because I had made up my mind that I was going to propose something meaningful to me as an African." You can see Magdalen Fellow Samson Kambalu's sculpture in Trafalgar Square from September bit.ly/3cvMMtX @kambalu_s

Happy to share the exciting news that Antelope, a sculpture by Samson Kambalu, will be unveiled at Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth on 14 September this year. Add the date to your diaries and learn more about @Kambalu_S👇🏽

If you are in New York do not miss the chance to see Ravi Coltrane at the Village Vanguard. I went last night and he is superb. Worth queuing for returns! #VillageVanguard

Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie dead at 79 Fleetwood Mac Christine McVie #FleetwoodMac #ChristineMcVie ultimateclassicrock.com/fleetwood-mac-…

Welcome to Al-Mutanabbi Street the ‘Book Market of Baghdad’, where books remain in the street at night because Iraqis say: “The reader does not steal and the thief does not read.” A thread on the rich heritage of the historic book market on Al-Mutanabbi Street…

Wayne Shorter, who died at age 89, was a giant of jazz as an improviser, bandleader, and thinker, but above all as a composer—one of the greatest the genre, and the United States, has ever produced, David A. Graham writes: on.theatln.tc/iHwoC0B

We are saddened to hear that Martin Amis, one of the most acclaimed and discussed novelists of the past 50 years, has died. Our thoughts are with his family and friends

That feeling when you’ve just got back from a week of Modern and Contemporary Art sales in New York…

#RIP

Happened three months ago in the back garden 🏏😉

The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert at the Albert Hall in 1983 was something special. Wish I’d been there.

Happy Birthday Trane

I really enjoyed “Mannerism: Arts Wildest Movement” by WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK. I wouldn’t want anyone else but Waldemar as my guide when exploring these extraordinary artworks. He is spot on when it comes to Pontormo! Catch it on Sky Arts. Can’t wait for the next one.

Very sad to hear of Paul Auster’s death today. I have loved his novels over decades. A wonderful writer RIP

In the early 14th century, Siena, Italy was the site of phenomenal artistic innovation and activity. NOW ON VIEW—"Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350" examines an exceptional moment at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance and the pivotal role of Sienese artists—including

Nope. Stopped being a café for 350 years. When I was a student the site was occupied by the Frank Cooper marmalade shop. The oldest café in Britain is probably the Queen's Lane Coffee House, about 100 yards from this joint, which has been going continuously since about 1650.

I thoroughly enjoyed this wonderfully engaging book by Dr. Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS 🇺🇦 It takes a refreshingly long view with genuinely new insights into such well-known works as the Uffington White Horse; Wilton Diptych; Holbein’s Ambassadors and Lawrence’s Mrs Wolff among others. I loved it