CARRIE: "You're not going to wear a mask?" MR. BIG: "What? If I die, I die. That's life, toots." [typing] Mr. Big refusing to wear a mask made me think about the masks he DID wear. What was he afraid of? I couldn't help but wonder: could feelings be as contagious as covid-19?

Here’s a link to the complete list of 2019 calendar year visitor figures of our members. It shows how loved & popular our attractions are, right across the UK, & we invite the public to return, visit & support their local & most loved attractions this year alva.org.uk/details.cfm?p=…

The 2019 ALVA visitor figures are out! Strong year-on-year growth across #museums & #heritage attractions may make bittersweet reading at present, but Bernard Donoghue's optimistic outlook for the remainder of 2020 is what we all need 🙌 advisor.museumsandheritage.com/news/london-ve…

Thanks to the National Trust Partnership at University of Oxford and TORCH Oxford for facilitating the curatorial research internship I undertook in June uncovering the lives of gardeners working at #knightshayes 1881-1920. Find out more here: torch.ox.ac.uk/article/at-hom… 🌿🍌🌿

On Sofonisba Anguissola, widely credited as the first female artist of the Italian Renaissance apollo-magazine.com/sofonisba-angu…

*Some words you should get to know when learning how to be anti-racist - Whiteness White fragility Anti-Blackness #BlackLivesMatter Anti-colonial, decolonial Exceptionalism, supremacy Ethnocentrism Institutional racism = racist policy and practice. *What others? #MuseumHour

One of the aspects I love about interdisciplinary research is the lightbulb moments - when you find a critical framework to conceptualise ideas you are working on. Kitty Gurnos-Davies’s presentation for Critical Costume just did that! Thank you so much! costumeagency.com/project/kather…

Thank you Kitty Gurnos-Davies Amy Hare & Rachel Hannon (+others!) for a really inspiring #criticalcostume2020 discussion today. Such a valuable and open space for #costume centred conversations.

After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time.

Knitter Anne Eunson, who knitted a fence with twine based on a Shetland lace pattern, installed at the Shetland Textile Museum, Lerwick #womensart #KnitArt

A bit too close to the bone 😂

⭐ #ArchiveAdvent Day 23 by Kitty ⭐ “It’s nearly Christmas and time to say an early #HappyBirthday to #LouiseBourgeois who was born on 25 December in 1911. Bourgeois’ work helps us all to find beauty and powerfully argues for the value of creativity" buff.ly/376oaTe

This petition has been started by our colleagues at @sibmas_org (the International Association of Libraries, Museums, Archives & Documentation Centres of the Performing Arts) to save the V&A Theatre & Performance department. Please sign & circulate. eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2…

A huge thank you to Kirsten and Dr Ros Ballaster for being the most wonderful supervisors I could hope for! I couldn’t have done it without you!

Huge congratulations to ⁦Kitty Gurnos-Davies⁩ who today submitted her PhD thesis after 3 years research Royal & Derngate through our collaborative doctoral award with University of Oxford under the leadership of Dr Ros Ballaster Kirsten in collaboration with ⁦TORCH Oxford⁩

And a joy for me too!

Take a bow ⁦NYT Rep Company⁩! Animal Farm from ⁦NationalYouthTheatre⁩ reopens ⁦Royal & Derngate⁩ after our longest period of closure since 1884!