We are just begin to get an inkling of how deeply embedded Peter Mandelson and Tony Blair were/are with the sinister rich. Every time you think you've seen the worst of it, something else emerges.
www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mand...
"Landscape of the Vernal Equinox (III)" by Paul Nash portrays a dreamlike scene with abstract natural forms and overlapping celestial elements in pastel tones, reflecting Nash's fascination with the mystical aspects of nature. The juxtaposition of surreal shapes and a poetic sky evoke a sense of transcendental harmony, characteristic of Nash's devotion to exploring the metaphysical qualities of landscapes.
Landscape of the Vernal Equinox (III) https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-nash/landscape-of-the-vernal-equinox-iii-1944
Thats fantastic
Totally agree
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
Yellow Painting by Vasily Kandinsky, 1938
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Those songs affected change
Well there ain’t no time to wonder why
Whoopee! We are all going to die
Darting eyes and busy hands create a captivating narrative between otherwise staid figures, each of which is richly clothed in meticulously painted combinations of color and texture. La Tour took on a theme popularized in Northern Europe by prints and in Rome by Caravaggio: an old Roma (formerly identified with the derisive term "Gypsy") woman reads the young man's fortune as her beautiful companions take the opportunity to rob him. This celebrated painting, which was only discovered in the mid-twentieth century, is inscribed with the name of the town where the artist lived in northeastern France, supporting the possibility that he developed such works independent of Caravaggio's precedent. #art #painting
The Fortune-Teller, probably 1630s
Georges de La Tour
Oil on canvas
#ArtSky
Indeed, Vivien. A force for the good. Something particularly poignant about the timing…
RIP, the great Country Joe Macdonald. Particularly poignant under present circumstances. We need his like today
I have always felt that he is so profoundly narcissistic and disturbed that he can’t envisage a world without out him in it and at its centre. If he is to die then we all go with him
Plan to turn Irish borderlands into Unesco ‘region of literature’ | Books | The Guardian
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York © 2016 Karel Appel Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Two Heads by Karel Appel, 1953
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Exquisite
The first lesson of war is ‘know your enemy’ – and Britain’s enemy now is Donald Trump | Simon Tisdall
He should
No excuses, we were dreadful. We didn’t turn up #SAFC
#SAFC. This is grim !
Today, on International Women’s Day, the artist Kathe Kollwitz, whose work served as an indictment of war
Let us remember the heartbreak of all those women who gave birth to, loved and nurtured their children only to have them destroyed by war. I cannot imagine how that feels
I understand the shift to green politics. Young people need hope, positivity, mutual respect. The old world is full of hate, intolerance and greed. If we are to survive as a species as many of us as possible have to turn away from it. It may seem idealistic and utopian, but we have to try
I don’t like saying this because there are so many decent Americans who are opposed to Trump’s regime, but I think even when/if he goes it will take a long time to trust a country in which this was allowed to happen.
We need to align ourselves with Scandinavia and Europe, abandon some old alliances
A crew installing Helen Frankenthaler’s Guiding Red, 1967 - at 2 World Trade Center, New York, 1977
📸 : André Emmerich
André Emmerich Gallery Records and André Emmerich Papers, 1929–2009
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
“Pete Hegseth is a very dangerous person. He’s a white Christian nationalist and has the arsenal of the United States government at his disposal and a permission slip from President Trump to deploy carnage wherever he wishes against whomever he wishes.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Got such a lot of time for Nigel Clough. He has ploughed away in the lower leagues most of his managerial career. He obviously loves the job. He has never allowed his father’s iconic career to overshadow his, just gets on with it and finds joy in it
Come on Mansfield !
1/3 There is and End of Days feel about Western Hegemony right now. A half millennia in which the West hoarded much of the world’s wealth, plundering, colonising and burning through fossil fuels, is ending in a paroxysmal, Trumpian blunder.
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
We may not be involved in the actual bombing but we are aiding and abetting. Very small difference. Ashamed of our government for allowing this
I didn’t realise we were letting US bombers to land here on their way to bomb Iranians. Big mistake
Exactly. The Yeats is so apposite
