Patricia Highsmith by Rolf Tietgens, 1942

Cicerone

Boilly x 2

Twelve French surgeons as specimens. Adrian Barrère, 1910

Entente Cordiale

Great opportunity to shape exhibitions at residencies The Warburg Institute - applications now open for a new Curator of Artistic Programmes role! jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

‘Art can come out of joy as well as angst’ - Robert Irwin (1928-2023) apollo-magazine.com/apollo-artist-…

One of the good guys - and his art is full of joy. RIP

‘When did museums devolve to the didactic / Spelling out of wonder?’ – a wonderful museum poem by ⁦Alicia E. Stallings⁩ in ⁦London Review of Books⁩ lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/…

Wonderful footage in this bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

RIP youtu.be/cZXnJ4UYh40?si…

Nice write-up by Gareth Harris of Rebecca Salter's exhibition Gainsborough's House. Such a pleasure to have worked with Rebecca on the exhibition! theartnewspaper.com/2023/11/27/roy…

A moment for the great Wilkie Collins, born 200 years ago today

André Michelin, who first published the Michelin Guide along with his brother Édouard, was born #OTD in 1853 – an excellent time to revisit Thomas Marks’s article on how gastronomic maps paved the way for regional French cooking apollo-magazine.com/history-of-fre…

Wisden & Company / Wok to Walk

DIY Antony Gormley/Highbury Quadrant

Never seen this before - wonderful

Bellotto’s Dresden/chip shop in SW London

Today is the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death. In 2022, we published this reflection from Thomas Marks on his drawings. “They are the ordinary, improvised digressions of an extraordinary writer.” (From the archive) prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/60160/…

What a wonderful birdsong poem by Alicia E. Stallings in the LRB lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…