Roberta Mock

This is so awful I'm having trouble actually processing it. It's every shade of wrong and regressive. 😡😞

Creative Futures for Young People in and around Surrey An online event to start a meaningful conversation about creative futures for young people in and around Surrey.

I'll be facilitating this free online roundtable exploring Creative Futures for Young People in and around Surrey (UK)

Mon 16 March 2026
4–5.30pm UK time

Join us & share your thoughts on how we can better understand what young people need to thrive creatively & to choose to pursue creative careers

Terrible rage terrible rage... wonderful rage? Half of the theatre industry's workforce will go through the menopause - so why don't we talk about what that's really like?

"We need to talk about the impact of peri/menopause – especially in sectors where precarity and scarcity mindsets leave us all too terrified to tell the truth or to be vulnerable about our struggles." From: @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social

There are many cis women who support the trans+ community. Their fight is our fight. Their safety is our safety. Their dignity is our dignity.

Sign this letter if you are a woman who agrees & wants the media and politicians to truthfully report & address the systems that perpetuate violence & harm.

Riz Ahmed’s British south-Asian Hamlet is a moody tale of grief and shady family business The film diverges from Shakespeare’s original presenting a dramatic and unexpected climax to this tale of revenge.

The film diverges from Shakespeare’s original presenting a dramatic and unexpected climax to this tale of revenge.

In Canada, you can call (or text!) 9-8-8 in a mental health crisis. 988.ca

Episode 083 features On TAP emeritae Sarah Bay-Cheng and Kareem Khubchandani joining Pannill to discuss Annie Dorsen's article about generative AI as theater, Chris Grobe's new article about "botface," and "looksmaxxing." Can you handle it? Download and see!

www.ontappod.com/home/2026/3/3/083

Shakespeare’s Globe launches climate change-focused playwriting prize

Shakespeare’s Globe is launching a playwriting prize that aims to champion playwrights engaging with the climate crisis and provoke conversation in the industry at large 👇

During next week’s Small Press Takeover, we will be joined by the incredible Yanita Georgieva, Ella Frears, Alia Kobuzsko, and Nathanial King! This event series is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30, with readings commencing at 7pm🧡

"What if collective joy experiences are as important to health as diet or exercise?"

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Artificial Inequality? AI and its impact on the UK Creative Industries (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Artificial Inequality? AI and its impact on the UK Creative Industries (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

Come at do a PhD with Sam Hind, Riza Batista-Navarro and me! "Artificial Inequality? AI and its impact on the UK Creative Industries" Deadline 30th March www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

a close up of a man asking why Alt: a close up of Quark in Deep Space Nine asking "why?"

I think there may be a local quark shortage!

I got to the end! 20 paintings which probably have no business being together. I imagine someone could have a field day analysing me through this collection (have a go!). And only 4 flagged for "adult content" (3 by women artists exploring their lived experience - go figure). #Choose20Paintings

A nude portrait of Leigh Bowery in a supine, exposed pose. He is lying on bare floorboards, surrounded by paint rags, with one leg bent and the other raised and propped on a striped mattress, creating an explicit, yet relaxed, composition.

AND FINALLY...

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

29. Nude with Leg Up (1992) by Lucian Freud

You are warranting well (though actually it's impressively executed)

There is still time to apply to our 10-day residential Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization 2026.

Find out how to apply for the 2026 Summer Institute here: buff.ly/njVGnTE

Deadline for submissions: Friday 20 March 2026

In the foreground of this painting is a line of women who are seated and are facing the viewer. These women are brides waiting to be auctioned off on a white stepped pedestal featured in the middle ground of the painting where the first bride is currently being auctioned. An auctioneer is presenting the woman to be sold to a crowd of men in the background.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

(which is really hard in this case)

19. The Babylonian Marriage Market (1875) by Edwin Long

An abstract painting featuring layered, soft-edged rectangular dark shapes floating on a deep maroon, red, and black background.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

18. Black on Maroon (1958) by Mark Rothko

Portrait of Bernhardt reclining on a sofa, looking towards the viewer with a sultry expression, holding a feather fan in her lap in her right hand, wearing a white gown trimmed with fur, with a dog lying at her feet and palm to left emerging from dark background

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

17. Portrait of Mlle Sarah Bernhardt, Member of the Comédie Française (1876) by Georges Clairin

An abstract painting featuring dark, densely packed, looping fleshy forms, some outlined in black with pink and white highlights that suggest tangled bodies, blood, eyes, and wounds.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

16. Embrace (1956) by Lee Krasner

Abstract vividly coloured painting of people promenading. There are 2 central figures, one of which seems to be a woman wearing a hat with big red blobby eyes.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

15. Impression VI (Sunday) (1911) by Wassily Kandinsky

Philippe Gaulier, clown guru and mentor to theatre and comedy greats, dies aged 82 Sacha Baron Cohen pays tribute to teacher who ran school outside Paris and was a formative influence on countless comedians and actors

Philippe Gaulier has died - the man who trained and influenced so many of my favourite performers and theatre-makers.

www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/f...

A gouache painting in red looking between the open legs of a blobby watery headless woman who is expelling a blur. At the top of this shape are breasts pointing toward the top of the canvas.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

14. The Birth (2007) by Louise Bourgeois

Photo of a wall mural with planters on the floor underneath it. It represents the manufacturing process of the exterior automobile parts, with a focus on technology including huge parts-pressing machines. In the centre of the mural are factory workers working on an axle. In the background, there are people touring the assembly line.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

13. The Detroit Industry Murals (1932–1933) by Diego Rivera

I'm sure I'm forgetting some really obvious ones!

A gestural fragmented painting that merges together three naked torsos with large breasts, each topped with the artist's own head seen at different angles

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

12. Ruben’s Flap (1998–99) by Jenny Saville

This is a vibrant gouache painting featuring four skeletons in pink, blue and white all wearing hats and dancing in a night-time meadow. In the background there is a gallows and in the sky a round white moon with a face.

Still going! Now over half way!

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

11. Dancing Skeletons (1934) by Edward Burra

A painting that is made up of a series of wavy, vertical stripes in red, turquoise, and grey. These bands unfurl like ribbons, increasing in intensity towards the centre of the square canvas. The lines broaden and thin in a rhythm that creates the illusion of movement, vibration and depth.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

10. Cataract 3 (1967) by Bridget Riley

A wooden window frame with 9 small squares on the top and a single pane the same size as the 9 together on the bottom. There are images in each of these boxes including a skeleton, moons and stars, a phenological head, a lion with a sun in its mouth, and a dancing couple. The main one on the bottom features a silhouette of a girl with an afro. You can see her eyes and her hands are pressed against the panes of the glass. On the hands are different astrological symbols in yellow and red.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

9. Black Girl's Window (1969) by Betye Saar