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Great to welcome Robert Phillips and Rose Davey to my Art Chat salon last night. Food for thought and food for the soul in these terrible times.

(note to self: must do more posts here)

Fantastic!

Art Chat2 was fun - great crowd and lots of questions. I even managed to read the Pall Mall Gazette by candlelight! Huge thanks to my special guest Luca Nasciuti for coming along and talking so eloquently about his sound art.

More in the new year.

Art Chat reconvenes this evening at Chats Palace in Hackney. We'll be chatting about art and music, and exploring soundscapes. There might be a bit of declamation, you never know.

7pm in The Library Bar.

Dismorr self-portrait. I am constantly drawn to this. (c.1912)

Must check this out! Seeing as it's in my 'manor'.

It was great fun to chat with artist, musician and all-round good egg Nigel Burch at the first Art Chat salon at Chats Palace this week. Think I'll do another..

You need a BBM.

I'll mail you. Did the promo via Insta but building a mailing list x

Hosting my first ever salon tonight, at Chats Palace in Hackney. Waaaaaah..!

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

British students lack ‘drive’ of their American peers, says Business Secretary | LBC The Business Secretary has defended comments he made at a meeting with investors where he said British students lack the ‘drive’ and ‘vigour’ of their American peers.

ffs. “Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’.

www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...

The Art History Festival 2025, organised by @AssociationForArtHistory, runs from Monday 15 - Sunday 21 September across the UK and online. It's a fantastic event for anyone interested in art and art's histories.

Check out the programme here:

festival.forarthistory.org.uk
#ArtHistoryFestival2025

He did get to Brazil, thankfully, and had a few wonderful weeks there before he died. Do feel free to contact me on jo@jocottrell.com and I can tell you more. Have a great time in France in the meantime.

Such sad news. Worked with Koyo briefly on a show at Iniva back in 2014. She was an inspirational woman.

Panel Discussion: How are the climate and nature crises reshaping our curatorial practice? - For Art History PLUS the fourth annual AAH Curatorial Prizes awards Friday, 16 May 2025, 18:00-20:30 The Gallery, 70 Cowcross Street, EC1M 6EJ Free to attend, in-person. BOOK NOW We’re delighted to host an evening of...

The Association for Art History is hosting a panel discussion this Friday, exploring how the climate and nature crises may be reshaping curatorial practice. Details can be found here:
forarthistory.org.uk/events/curat...

Latest Lewis blogpost is up:

wyndhamlewissociety.org/2025/05/06/b...

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💥Final call for AAH Curatorial Prize 2025💥

Application deadline: Friday 14 March.

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Dusk over Antequera Hospital.

Looks great!

Arts and Minds launch today at Tate Modern! Let’s save the arts in education.

happy birthday!

2025 Annual Conference - For Art History The Association for Art History's 2025 Annual Conference call for papers is live!

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2025 ANNUAL CONFERENCE - TICKETS

Don’t miss the Early Bird deadline: 7 February!

Conference tickets include access to all sessions, workshops, keynotes, receptions, the professional programme, the bookfair & networking opportunities.

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A venue to watch!

Looks fabulous! Bravo!

Edouard Manet: A Man on Crutches (1878).

Good to discuss this drawing at yesterday's Lewis Reading Group session.

Wyndham Lewis: Futurist Figure (1912).