Encouraged to see this! Privatisation of public transport, water and power have ended up an expensive disaster. Essential services should never be put in the hands of profit-driven investors or foreign governments. Conservatives from Thatcher on have a lot to answer for!

Here is Donald McLeish’s photo of the hurdy gurdy man courtesy of this morning’s Spitalfields Life by Spitalfields Life and providing another good opportunity to listen to Harry Plunkett Greene sing The Hurdy Gurdy Man m.youtube.com/watch?v=rfAjio…

DIAS presents two evenings with Yoko Ono, 28 and 29 September 1966.
Programme and fragment of BIBA dress from Cut Piece (Michael Gibbs papers, Tate Gallery Archive TGA 20105)
Poster (Walker Art Center, 1989.294)
Tate Walker Art Center

It took a while (ten years, but who's counting). But it's finally a book, thanks to the fine folk at @routledgeart. Out now.
routledge.com/Criticism-Art-…

Light through
Skylight

Just published : my ODNB entry on Hill, Anthony Cedric Graham [pseud. Achill Redo]
and with a very nice 1956 portrait photograph of Hill by Adrian Flowers

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Adrian Flowers Archive Annely Juda Fine Art

Views west and east

This is the simple dolmen of La Maison des Fées in Miré (Maine-et-Loire) c. 1905 when it was being re-used as a makeshift tool shed. Folklore records that the capstone has the imprints of the head and hands of the fairy who carried it.

“I wanted people to see sound”

Got to get to see Liliane Lijn’s exhibition Arise Alive at the Haus der Kunst in Munich … hausderkunst.de/en/eintauchen/…

😍Make a date to go see Arise Alive, a major solo survey show of the great Liliane Lijn Haus der Kunst München, now open, runs to 22.9.24

ICYMI here’s my 2018 interview with Liliane for 3:AM Magazine — discussing some truly tantalising lost early works… 3ammagazine.com/3am/jigsaw-puz…

Wow. It gets worse and worse.

Fascinating.
Could it ever be re-installed at Javitz Building plaza?

In 1959 Adrian Flowers visited Patrick Heron's St Ives studio and recorded the early states of two paintings - both now in Tate collection BROWN GROUND WITH SOFT RED AND GREEN : AUGUST 1958 - JULY 1959 and YELLOW PAINTING : OCTOBER 1958 MAY/JUNE 1959 Adrian Flowers Archive Tate_StIves

#ThursdayThrowback #FromTheArchives

This photograph, taken by Adrian Flowers, shows artists Terry Frost and Patrick Heron, in May 1959. They are in Heron’s studio, at the iconic Porthmeor Studios, St Ives.

© Adrian Flowers Archive

Happy Easter

'Fund it like you mean it... the politicians who wanted to use my art to protect their jobs, are failing to do their jobs to protect my art...' great thread

Yoko Ono Wrapping Event 1967 at Trafalgar Square
Pictured by the wrapped lion with her daughter Kyoko (photographer: Simos Tsapnidis), and ad for the film (IT #18, August 31-September 13, 1967)

“Thames Water boss says bills need to rise by 40%.” Here’s why 👇

RIP Richard Serra.

Yes, I saw ‘Tilted Arc’ before the site-specific sculpture was removed from its site.
The sort of reactionary ideological ethos that succeeded in evicting Serra’s sculpture has mutated into today’s far-right, which seeks to evict democracy from democracy.

Just as the Tories intended. Next stop, privatisation : Public satisfaction with the NHS at its lowest ever level, poll shows theguardian.com/society/2024/m…