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Someone else said: “Art Nouveau is when it looks made by elves. Art Deco is when it looks made by dwarves.” And after looking into it, I think they’re a genius and 100% correct.

me: i only write for my own enjoyment me writing:

The vomitification of beverages! Whenever you mix fizzy drinks, they always converge toward the colour of vomit.

Oh how one longs to be the arty couple in the queue for the Van Gogh show National Gallery, standing side by side silently reading the London Review of Books and The Economist

Every so often MS Word randomly picks a word with which to gaslight me

Geographically nonsensical headlines like this—west as distinguished from global south—epitomise the problem with the currently accepted terminology used to distinguish rich countries from poor countries

Looks like there's been an influx of people joining Bluesky. Give me a follow if you like bsky.app/profile/suryab…

Vacancy for Project Curator: Documentation and Recovery (British Museum). Fixed term (until 31 January 2028), £35,165 per annum. Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on 22 November 2024. bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com//templates/CIP…

My article in the History on the state of the (future) field of the history of collecting and institutions written with surya bowyer Liberty Paterson (@libertypaterson.bsky.social) and Niti Acharya has just been published! Open access so would be lovely to hear your thoughts. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

"The history of collecting has sometimes been understood as the history of individual collectors. But collecting institutions (e.g., museums) are worthy of attention because they profoundly impact why we, as historians, look at some things and not others." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Has anyone done research on the importance of the "minute paper" to communications within the UK Civil Service of the twentieth century?

I know nothing about this type of trompe l'oeil — a curtain, painted over the main part of the composition. Can anyone enlighten me? I'm rather in love with it... christies.com/en/lot/lot-651…

This was the only logical thing to do actually

One of the most perfectly executed "letters to the editor" I have ever seen

A truly nightmarish thing, this was one of the hits of the Great Exhibition

The Death of Cleopatra, by John Collier, 1890

This handbag would EAT at Paris Fashion Week

I am giving a (free!) talk V&A on 3 June with Shreya Gupta Liberty Paterson (@libertypaterson.bsky.social) & Niti Acharya, on the history and future of institutional collecting. Sign up here to attend ⬇️ vam.ac.uk/event/Yq2NZKj6…

RIP Pope Francis, hat guy