Odd how the people losing their shit over a statue of a slaver being destroyed don't get upset about all the fine old buildings destroyed every year for the sake of profit. It's almost like they're using faux concern about heritage as cover for something else #ColstonHasFallen

As I leave my post at William Morris Gallery, I wanted to highlight my perspective and experience on glass ceilings, fake solidarity and hypocrisy that shaped my time in this institution. bit.ly/3hA0p9m

Yep. Forficulation is the new touch. A self-generating skin sensation triggered by the state of the world

Absolute star of a podcast on dodgy monuments from The Art Newspaper – particularly Richard Benjamin of the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool and #HewLocke, who have been thinking about these issues far longer than this current flurry theartnewspaper.com/podcast/what-t…

Join Roman Krznaric, Brian Eno & me to launch Roman's profound & very timely book, 'The Good Ancestor: how to think long term in a short-term world'. 8pm (UK) on 23 July, free online & bring your own drink. Get a ticket quick & see you there!

Always so odd, on a steaming hot day, to remember about the existence of snow and frost

There's the front crawl, the breaststroke and, er, what do you call this forgotten C16th swimming style? It's from Everard Digby's The Art of Swimming (1587), probably the earliest English guide to not sinking. Via publicdomainreview.org/collection/the…

Why have big "brands that in previous years were decked out in rainbow regalia all June for Pride appeared notably quiet on the celebration in 2020"? Insightful and galvanising analysis from Lily O'Mara in gal-dem gal-dem.com/this-pride-we-…

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Another wee clip from 'Rebel Dykes: the podcast' - the words of Rebel Dykes producer Siobhan Fahey. Listen on Spotify/Soundcloud for more on that exceptional slice of queer history, what it took to save it through a film and art show, and how much this all means to dykes today.

Still floating after the first two incredible, joyful nights with the Arkestra EartH ! There's still a few tickets remaining for the final show tonight - cafeoto.co.uk/events/sun-ra-… - do not miss!

it's this week's bestsellers! buy them all here: lrb.me/6jh jar of bittersweet figs = model's own (lunch)

Peter Salmon has such splendid clarity aeon.co/essays/after-j…

Decrying the pointlessness and commercialism of contemporary art was hardly a new position. But Suzi Gablik’s 1984 salvo of a book, “Has Modernism Failed?,” struck a chord. nyti.ms/3MtG7NT

1/2 Last week I heard a cuckoo singing amid the cuckoo flowers in a meadow in Upper Teesdale. So sweet and sad to hear it strike up for a few minutes. Last heard one in Two Tree Island in the Thames estuary about 7 years ago

2/2 Happily managed not to put my thumping great boot in this beautiful lapwing nest. Possibly abandoned? This one was in empty pasture, whereas the lapwing parents and chicks seemed abundant and lively wherever there were sheep

Heard the truly MAGNIFICENT Janet Baker speaking at the Aldeburgh Fest this weekend and am now obsessed youtube.com/watch?v=D_50zj…

In 1904 ‘readers of Berlin’s Third Sex were confronted with a whole fête galante of misfits, deviants, and sexual mutineers’. There’s ‘the women-only ball where a “dark-eyed Carmen sets a jockey aflame”, the drag act burlesquing Isadora Duncan…’

I'm tootling off Twitter for a bit