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Throwing my best Regency "hats" in the ring for #besthat themed #curatorbattle today. Here's some outrageous headgear in the shape of dragons, ships, ostrich feathers and lightning bolts: 'Lumps of Pudding', a cartoon from 1811 by William Heath after HW Bunbury @BrightonMuseums
My latest piece for the #100PioneeringSussexWomen @BrightonMuseums, a blog inspired by Anita Corbin's @FirstWomenUK project. This one is about the philanthropist Margaret Marriott, who built the Percy almshouses in Brighton. Portrait by Angelica Kauffman.
https://t.co/0H5m6VmNj3
It's not raining in the @royalacademy but I couldn't resist posing with my new purchase, an umbrella printed with Moses Harris's 18th-century colour wheel. Quite appropriate, having just had a meeting about an upcoming colour event.
(Not superstitious, btw)
Today in #Lewes: STEVE COOGAN took my phone after I slapped a #VoteTactically sticker on him, for a selfie with @zel_ouse, me, and @Lewes_Lib_Dems candidate @OliHenman. Let's be box clever & #VoteTactically to defeat the Tories #StopBoris. #VoteHenman #BrighterFuture @LewesEUnity
Last night @LewesDepot: After the screening of the 'Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love’ Jeremy Page talks with director Nick Broomfield @nickbroomfield1 about the heady and hedonistic Sixties and the many kinds of love and longing. #LeonardCohen #MarianneIhlen #solongMarianne
My colour wheels and colour blots from Turner's age have made it to @TCMargate 's 'Turner: Adventures in Colour' exhibition. Opens Saturday.
The effect of shadow and sunlight: Pierre Bonnard, Landscape with Olive Trees (South of France) 1924 @CourtauldGall