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BBC Radio 4 - Moving Pictures, Portrait Miniatures by Nicholas Hilliard A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail.

Listen as I probe the depths of Robert Dudley’s beard with @cathyfitzg.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4’s Moving Pictures at 4pm today or anytime afterwards on BBC Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Today in Cambridge!

Hooray! I’m so glad you’re enjoying it!

Mat Collishaw's Mask of Youth (2018), a realistic face of Elizabeth I at the age of 55, without hair, ears or neck, mounted on a robotic armature affixed to the wall.

Last few days to see Tudor Contemporary @heong-gallery.bsky.social at @downingcollege.bsky.social Cambridge! I'm running a Curator's Tour tomorrow lunchtime 12:30-1:15pm, and the show is open 12-5pm every day until Sunday. Don't miss it!

Tudor Contemporary: Curator's Tour Join Dr Christina Faraday for a tour of The Heong Gallery's Tudor Contemporary exhibition.

Tour tickets here (free, places limited): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tudor-cont...

Mat Collishaw's Mask of Youth (2018), a realistic face of Elizabeth I at the age of 55, without hair, ears or neck, mounted on a robotic armature affixed to the wall.

Last few days to see Tudor Contemporary @heong-gallery.bsky.social at @downingcollege.bsky.social Cambridge! I'm running a Curator's Tour tomorrow lunchtime 12:30-1:15pm, and the show is open 12-5pm every day until Sunday. Don't miss it!

😂 the same logic that produced the careers advice “don’t take art GCSE because this piece of paper says you’re not a visual learner”

Basically all the time for the first couple of years of KS3 - except for when we were doing mind gym, of course. I’m sure there were a few lessons where we had to do both simultaneously….

Bet I can guess who suggested it

I’m having a day off which means I’m sitting on the sofa eating Easter chocolate and reading my new etymological dictionary.

There's just one week left to see this free exhibition at @heong-gallery.bsky.social at @downingcollege.bsky.social - open 12-5pm, Weds-Sun, closing this Sunday 19th April!!

Front Row - Review: Is it ok to film theatre curtain calls on your phone? - BBC Sounds Reviewing new work from Francois Ozon, Amitav Ghosh and Jim Jarmusch.

Tudor Contemporary recommended on BBC Radio 4 Front Row! Described by @katemaltby.bsky.social: "the best time I've had in an art gallery recently ... a wonderful collection of contemporary & cutting edge works of art that take their inspiration from Tudor art" www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... at 40:17

Magnificent cloth of gold and red silk damask velvet cope commissioned by Henry VII late 15th century, likely worn by Wolsey in France in 1521

📷2021 the Stonyhurst vestments at Hampton Court ‘Gold and Glory’ exhibition

#textiletuesday #Tudortuesday

Rare painting sparks identity quest by National Portrait Gallery Research is underway to uncover the identity of two teenagers in 17th Century portrait.

This is so cool and I can’t wait to see it on display at the National Portrait Gallery. Really fascinating to see this kind of rare double portrait with male figures.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hooray!

Oscar Nearly - Fragile July | Broken Sleep Books Fragile July by Oscar Nearly is a prose-poem of obsessive reconstruction, circling a single childhood summer in which the ordinary textures of suburbia, garden games, disposable-camera snapshots, pop songs, and family rituals begin to feel charged with threat. Built from repetition, incremental shifts, and documentary attention to objects and photographs, the text tests how memory hardens into narrative, how evidence both clarifies and corrupts, and how dread can arrive retrospectively.

Copies available here: www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

A book laid on a brightly patterned red and orange table runner, in bright sunshine. The book has a dark brown cover of the corner of an empty room. Bare floorboards and bare brick walls and a large sash window to the right. Light streams in but nothing can be seen outside. The title Fragile July appears in a light orange serif font in the top left, Oscar Nearly in white below.

The book held open at a spread with text only partially visible on the left, a photograph on its side on the right, the photograph in black and white showing a window with curtains, a radiator and the tops of some kitchen chairs. A wooden door into another room to the left. Beyond the window the silhouettes of trees.

Extremely proud to share my brother @nearlyoscar.bsky.social’s brilliant, haunting book Fragile July, just out with award-winning indie @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social. The book is a prose-poem w/photos; it captures a time we both remember when things were weird. It might strike a chord with you too.

Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable.

Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.

ht @astrokatie.com

One giant leap for Christinas everywhere.

RIP Galen you would have loved the astronauts reaching the 'sphere of lunar influence'

Very good!! They never get boring

I’m so glad you enjoyed it! Yes I think poor Crazy Cleve was ahead of his time… I hope you like the exhibition!

Advert for free family event for Tudor Contemporary, title in gold frame surrounded by cutout images including a portrait of Elizabeth I by The Singh Twins, Chan Hyo Bae as Henry VIII, Serena Korda’s Bartmann jug.

Looking for something to do this afternoon in Cambridge with little people? Try the @heong-gallery.bsky.social Tudor Contemporary Family Trail! Open 12-5pm!

I'm a phillistine when it comes to art but went to a gallery with wife to keep her happy. Turned a corner saw a stunning painting all spotlit, and spontaneously burst into tears. Guess I'm a convert.

My granny had two cats growing up named Keith and Prowse after the theatre hospitality agents whose tagline was “you want the best seats, we have them”…

Thank you!

Ah sorry John it’s w/c 13 April! Exhibition ends 19 April

Ah sorry to miss you! I’ll be doing a tour too in the final week if you’re around!