Very sad news of Alastair Brotchie’s passing. A good moment to think of the continuously ascending scale he provided for the run-off groove on Buzzcocks’ Another Music in a Different Kitchen.

Anthony Hill, born on this day 1930. A major exhibition ‘Anthony Hill: 5 Decades’ opens in a few weeks at Annely Juda Fine Art, London; 18 May–8 July Annely Juda Fine Art

Opening tonight! Anthony Hill: 5 Decades Annely Juda Fine Art Plus catalogue with text ‘Anthony Hill and Redo’ by Dawn Ades

Redo (Anthony Hill) Wes Monster Foolerine (detail) 1997

This was huge fun: Dawn Ades and @hansulrichobrist joined me for a discussion of Anthony Hill and Redo, in among the works in @AnnelyJuda exhibition ‘Anthony Hill: 5 Decades’. Still a couple of weeks to see the show too youtube.com/watch?v=E8pCTg…

Last day of ‘Anthony Hill: 5 Decades’ Annely Juda Fine Art today, an epic opportunity to reappraise an artist who was central to modern art in Britain. ‘A bridge between the avant garde and the neo-avant garde’, said Hans Ulrich Obrist in this panel discussion: youtu.be/E8pCTg1w9jg

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Three years since the passing of Anthony Hill, a great and incomparable artist. This show Annely Juda included 80 works from across five decades annelyjudafineart.co.uk/exhibitions/35… I discussed Anthony, Redo, Dada and DATA with Dawn Ades and @hansulrichobrist here youtube.com/watch?v=E8pCTg…

Pavilion for a bookseller at the 1927 Monza Biennial, by Fortunato Deparo, an example of what he called 'architettura tipografica'.

My review of Sam Gendel at Milton Court for London Jazz News, londonjazznews.com/2023/11/18/sam…

It gets me every single time . . .

Very fond memories of Jan, here in Cornwall in summer of 2008. A wise and brilliant friend. ‘Dutch Type’ was a game changer in publications about type. We will miss you Jan Middendorp

RIP John White, composer. He wrote Wut for George W. Welch in 1987, around the same time as this photo... We played various other pieces of his, often in arrangements by Ian Gardiner @LoneArranger2

@LoneArranger2 A great recording for a view of John White through the lens of George W. Welch/Ian Gardiner: soundcloud.com/y-n-garedunord…

Read articles by the late Jan Middendorp on the Eye site, eyemagazine.com/profile/author… #typography #calligraphy #graphicdesign #DutchType #JanMiddendorp

John White’s ‘positively cosmic array of compositional starting points – including Charles-Valentin Alkan, Ferruccio Busoni, Nikolai Medtner, Erik Satie and Olivier Messiaen – gradually accrued into a kind of alternative history of music that offered a multitude of models.’

Read this excellent biography of Anthony Hill by @andrew_wilson_a - a reference point for all future work on Hill

Anthony Hill (1930–2020), born on this day in 1930. Photographed here with Gillian Wise in their Charlotte Street, London studio by Lord Snowdon. Spread from Private View, The Lively World of British Art by Bryan Robertson, John Russell and Snowdon, 1965. Annely Juda Fine Art

Dave Hickey Feint of Heart, Art Writings, 1982-2002 September 2024, David Zwirner Books Cover image: Ed Ruscha Type: Untitled Serif Klim Type Foundry