3 dudes in bed, england, 13th century

Gorgeous little library at Ham House

'The Plotinus' by Rikki Ducornet, 2023.
Cyanotype (IKR?!) by Michael Eastman

I want to put this book into the hands of every thinking person. We owe it to ourselves!! ⁦⁩ I’ll be talking with Lydia Miller Tuesday 7 pm at ⁦Odyssey Bookshop⁩ in S. Hadley MA. out now from ⁦W. W. Norton & Company⁩ #envhist

Damn.

I'd much rather Labour were focusing on why people are shoplifting. When people simply can't make ends meet they will take desperate measures. Criminalising them does not help. Improving their lives and prospects does. Let's look at that, eh? Let's offer a vision of hope.

I have been conducting research about the 1968 Columbia protests for such a long time, but I honestly do not know what to say right now. Except, perhaps, that student movements have been one of the most progressive, courageous political avantgardes of the past century

Our events. We want everyone to come to all of them. That’s our whole strategy. More info on the site or come and ask us.

Louise Bourgeois, Art Is a Guaranty of Sanity, 1999

In email today from The New York Review of Books -- link to an article by Julian Bell, great nephew of VW; artist like his grandmother; prolific art critic like his grandfather; namesake of his uncle. what legacies. #vwstories2024 nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

It was Lady Gaga.

A recently restored book of remedies at the UL is revealing over 200 medieval medical recipes. The manuscript has been the subject of meticulous conservation work as part of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project. Read more here: specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=27848.

Cumbria, 1391. The last wolf in England felt desperately alone. He lived in the thorn woods at Humphrey Head & his one friend was a kind girl who gave him bacon & buttery scones. When he was killed & his soul flew over the sea, he howled her name to the dying sun, to the waves.

Adah Thoms (b. 1870), director of the Lincoln School for Nurses, fought for Black nurses to serve as American Red Cross nurses during WWI & as US Army Nurse Corps nurses during the 1918 flu epidemic. She was inducted into the American Nursing Association Hall of Fame in 1976.

I fully support this statement by my Columbia and Barnard colleagues.

Something very sinister about banning peaceful student protesters and punishing them, and perhaps particularly so at a woman's college, when women are historically peacemakers. If a woman's college not value non-violence and peace, what does it value?

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Yesterday, I went to Yinka Shonibare‘s Suspended States, Serpentine. It’s full of visually arresting and thought-provoking creations, like his jaw-dropping War Library and his striking colonial figures. Definitely a must-see, and for the film of his work. #consciousart

I have a boring, boring cold so I made a Warhol-style Brigid Brophy pic.