Visited exhibition Ruskin’s Perspectives: The Art of Abstraction at Brantwood House today. Great stuff

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‘If you can paint one leaf, you can paint the world’

in Autumn? Ruskin’s 'Leafspray' echoes the colours as the leaves fall along canal

Give to our appeal & choose 'Leafspray' as our gift to you: https://t.co/tIP2oDJFZY
📷 Insta

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Walking through town & thinking about the news. Fearful for the future of our Arts & wild spaces
I remember words:
‘A nation cannot last as a money-making mob…-it cannot go on despising literature, despising art, despising nature, despising passion‘

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No. 306

24/08/2014 - A Year In Beer.



Ruskin’s 3.9

Ruskin’s 3.9

Ruskin’s 3.9

Ruskin’s 3.9

Ruskin’s 3.9

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‘Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud’ is longlisted for the Berger Prize for British Art History 2020. Published for & ed. Richard Johns & , writers - including The Ruskin's Sandra Kemp - explore Ruskin’s relevance for his time and our own.

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From expansive skies, to microscopic shells: your Ruskin a view across the sea toward the Hebrides, has reminded us of Ruskin’s seashells, preserving ‘something like a true image of beautiful things that pass away, or which you must yourself leave.’ https://t.co/yX5bNrfQL7

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"thought and said," Leo Tolstoy once noted, "what everyone will think and say in the future." He wasn’t wrong.

In a time of climate change and consumerism, Ruskin’s work is prescient—gauge at what level by visiting our galleries today thru 5 pm.

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Tomorrow, 26 September 2019, our new exhibition 'Ruskin: Museum of the Near Future' opens, exploring the continuing contemporary relevance of Ruskin’s works. We’re open from 10am! 🖼️ 🏛️

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Feel lucky to have had the chance to see ’s fantastic exhibit on Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud. It was visually beautiful, of course, but I was equally struck by the poetry of Ruskin’s art criticism, which I haven’t read in years and need to revisit.

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Whistler’s near-abstract Nocturne in Black & Gold: The Falling Rocket (1875) ~ critic John Ruskin likened it to a coxcomb “flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face”. Ensuing libel action led to Ruskin’s mental collapse & derisory damages of a farthing to a bankrupted Whistler

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