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staying up late scaring myself making Gustave Doré Teletubbies
@LouisStaples @RachelConnoll14 @tom_usher_ Claude Parent designed some pretty chic nuclear power stations for the French state
I am teaching my first ever undergraduate seminar tomorrow, a class on how to spot Post-Modernism, Venturi Scott Brown, Jencks etc... I find myself obsessively returning to the Farrell TV-am drawings and those insane interiors — my god what a loss
Sumptuous @NationalGallery exhibition on Albrecht Dürer: interesting exploration of influence across European artistic networks in early 16thC eg Dürer learnt to use white highlight on blue-ground in Venice in the 1590s and used it to unearthly effect until his death
Cruikshank's 'Nashional Taste!!!', an 1824 caricature of John Nash atop his All Soul's Langham Place, after MP Henry Gray Bennet attacked it as 'a deplorable, horrible object... a shameful disgrace to the metropolis. It was like a flat candlestick with an extinguisher on it.'
Totally transfixed by the architectural visions and post-apocalyptic fantasies of François de Nomé, a French painter who lived in Naples through the 1610s–20s, and created feverishly baroque visions of collapsing temples, catastrophic saintly martyrdom and white marble utopias
Powerful vibes emanating from this proposal of a ‘church for the world’ posted on the ‘Aalvar Aaltissimo’ meme page on Facebook
This piece by Sir Muirhead Bone (1907), in pencil(!), of scaffolding inside the reading room of the @britishmuseum never fails to knock me back on my feet
@CharlestonTrust, home of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, summering place of the Bloomsbury Group, lovely exhibition on the Omega Workshops, with Duncan’s slightly unconvincing copy of piero Della Francesca’s duke of Urbino