Historian-artist. Illustrating history. River Thames rambler, textual artefacts, history into art. Also @LitoApostolakou

Joined November 2011
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Helen Frankenthaler on How to Be an Artist artsy.net/article/artsy-edit… via @artsy

What is it that draws the eye into the mystery of the photograph? Its potency as a relic? its otherworldliness? its fiction? This question by Hervé Guibert is to the point: "How can you talk about photography without… instagram.com/p/BxhQqXdFxKC/…

"I don’t like America enough to want to live anywhere else except Manhattan. And what I like about Manhattan is that it’s full of foreigners. The America I live in is the America of the cities. The rest is just drive-through.” Susan Sontag. Kindred spirit.
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To mark the release of his new book The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media with @VersoBooks, social theorist @nathanjurgenson will be joined in conversation by author, curator and lecturer @AnnebellaPollen on 2 May. Details via the link! tpg.org.uk/2Vj4NBu

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Affect Theory and the New Age of Anxiety newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…

The Daily Routines of 10 Women Artists, from Joan Mitchell to Diane Arbus artsy.net/article/artsy-edit… via @artsy

Artists Become Famous through Their Friends, Not the Originality of Their Work artsy.net/article/artsy-edit… via @artsy

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10 Dec 2018
As May postpones/abandons her attempt to sell and win a vote on her Brexit deal, the faces on government benches are uniformly deeply glum: This moment represents a rock bottom low in British politics
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It's #blackfriday Black as ink. Paper Folds: A Story of Historical Interest - collage on drawer etsy.me/2AgGYxr via @Etsy

Eight of Jenny Saville’s most compelling art works dazeddigital.com/art-photogr… via @Dazed

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Watch “SIMON ENGLISH SMILE PLEASE PEER 2018” on #Vimeo vimeo.com/282623919?ref=tw-s…

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Roland Barthes: a double grasp on reality the-tls.co.uk/articles/publi…