Sculptor who created a new form of public art
https://www.europesays.com/uk/787040/
David Harding believed that art did not stand apart from society but emerged from it — from streets,…
The jolly tiles don’t stop it being so narrow😬
How times change. 20 years ago I lived round the corner from AB school. With a rotten reputation they wanted it demolished. Now it will provide jobs for middle class professions and further embed N London gentrification. If it was in Motherwell they’d blow it up. c20society.org.uk/news/hall-fo...
Not sure either, but seems to be a good illustration of the difference in levels of car ownership during the interwar years and postwar decades as traffic grew to dominate planning.
Town centre or ‘off centre’?
Poster showing detail of Dancing Oaks exhibition installation
Dancing Oaks
Gallery 495, Cellardyke
12 July - 30 September 2025
Open 24/7
I am showing new work at the Gallery 495 phone box community exhibition space by Cellardyke harbour, about ecology, pedagogy, and public art made in response to the local landscape of the East Neuk.
A fascinating book, deserves to be better known.
I once enjoyed the great privilege of a private audience with Irving Finkel discussing the BM cuneiform tablet library. Very little beats listening to a world expert. A memorable pleasure.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves displaying emotion.
A reminder that the Tory propaganda (press) are vile misogynists, regardless of Labour’s despicable policy.
Léon Krier is dead. He should be remembered as a Speer apologist and (intentional or unintentional) aesthetic smokescreen for far-right thought, from neo-Nazism to techno-feudalism
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/a...
Installation void space with detritus.
Reproduction of Brueghel’s Hunters in the Snow.
Highlight of the Mike Nelson show @fruitmarket.bsky.social
Better public art than the Biennale.
Interesting to note the similarities and differences between these southern new / expanded towns and those of the north and Scotland.
As a historian of protest, the number one question I get asked, by radio/podcast presenters, students, other people, is "why do political and social movements keep choosing to do peaceful protests like demonstrations if they usually fail?"
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A bowl of cherries
Life, apparently.
Hand written poster advertising a magician of questionable ability.
Now available for Edinburgh birthdays, weddings, barmitzvas, etc.
Join Andrew for a walking tour of Livingston new town and its splendid public art this Saturday (June 7th) - the sun is sure to shine! 😎
A reminder that this is happening next Saturday 7 June. Public art everywhere from civic showpieces, social housing and concrete poetry in infrastructure, to supermarket car parks and drains - “something for everyone!” ;-)
Disappointed there isn’t a corgi merry-go-round.
Heatherwick, natch
“Ban this filth”, etc.
Livingston!
Please join me and @ssahistory.bsky.social for a walking tour of highlights from the Livingston public art collection. Non-members and concrete fans welcome.
Let’s take it to the streets, man!
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Eider on nest.
Spot the eider nesting.
Academics take note.
‘Same old scene”?
“Locating our value in work or, when that fails, the state, is always precarious… People’s value cannot lie in the value they produce; if our value is vested in anything but our shared humanity, it is ultimately unstable.” 🤍
I can tell you what it feels like and it ain’t “a worthy successor”.
No, more a laying on of hands.
