women holding up a hoop for supporting a skirt

The scene from a ladies dressing room, preparing for the crinoline.
ondon Stereoscopic Company Comic Series, circa 1860

One of those slightly ‘get it in the neck from all sides’ positions but @artscouncilengland.bsky.social is looking for a new Chair. £60k / 2 days a week
apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9064

Have just paid £3.45 for a tea with no milk 🙃

Call for applications: LECTIO Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027

Interested to work on our collections? The Call for applications of the LECTIO – KU Leuven Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027 is now open. As in previous years, Special Collections offers a joint fellowship. We will be happy to welcome you!

Autumn 2025 Programme Out Now! | Glasgow Women's Library While heading towards colder weather and shorter days, we are committed to creating warmth by opening our doors to a season full of bold ideas, stories, and joyful gatherings.

Our new Autumn / Winter programme is out - an abundance of @womenslibrary.bsky.social joy to behold! Check it out here: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/09/12/a...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Eight years married today to this wonderful human. I know more about conservation architecture than I ever thought I would and he knows more about pop culture than I think he likes to admit.

Fountains Abbey providing some October atmosphere (dwarfing me and Finbar)

Halloween delights from Betty’s Harrogate.

Open House 2025 Step inside the British Academy’s historic Grade-I listed home for Open House Festival 2025. Discover the building’s Nash-designed architecture and explore its history and art collection. Be among the...

As part of Open House we are opening up the home of @britishacademy.bsky.social next Sunday 21 Sept. It’s a gorgeous building with a lot of history
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/livin...

Bon voyage Bernadette. Very sad that this may mean the end of Priscilla Queen of the Desert 2.

The witch trials of 1612 still cast a long shadow.

The Trust seeks to appoint an Assistant Director, a newly-created position in our centenary year. This broad-ranging grants leadership position will cover three major activities: grant-making, representing the Trust and leading on key areas of policy development. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/current...

I am beyond thrilled to announce I have been awarded a Mid-Career Fellowship from @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social and a Visiting Fellowship at @ucl-ias.bsky.social to write a book on ‘Queer Ecologies and Abundant Aesthetics in Sri Lankan Art, 1926-2024’. Pictured: Chathuri Nissansala, ‘Saudade’, 2024.

Unctuous lips at the Jenny Saville / National Portrait Gallery show.

Afternoon Festive Tea and icing workshop at Biscuiteers Notting Hill. The sugar high continues.

Mail Rail Postal Museum Christmas Fun with the Courtauld Research Team.

Mongol Connections is made possible with support from Gettythrough its Connecting Art Histories initiative.

There;s a short information session on the 6th January 2025 at 2pm GMT.

Email mongolconnections@courtauld.ac.uk for a zoom link to attend.

💫Call For Applications: Mongol Connections💫

Applications are open for a three-year (2025-2027) research network project and travelling seminar hosted at The Courtauld, led by the wonderful Professor Sussan Babaie

courtauld.ac.uk/research/mon...

The face of a boy plotting how to take down a Christmas Tree.

Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it

Spike Island is recruiting for a Curator - Spike Island Spike Island is recruiting a new Curator to support the organisation.

One of the best galleries in the country is looking for a curator

Another 352,000 images have been #digitized from the Witt Photographic Collection at The Courtauld bringing the total now online to just over 1.25 million.

Take a look:
photocollections.courtauld.ac.uk/browsetree

#41 Photo albums | View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture CFP for 41 issue of View: Photoalbums

cfp for special issue about photo albums, deadline December 10th
www.pismowidok.org/en/cfp/41-fo...

a giant winged person covering a toy town

Behind the scenes of FW Murnau's 1926 film Faust. Here, the crew ready the Angel of Death enveloping a German town, built in miniature.''

🚨One for the conservationists on here 🚨

Records of Care: informing approaches to the conservation of Britain’s wall paintings

A symposium to mark the first major phase of digitisation of the National Wall Paintings Survey.

courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/rec...

Specimens of beauty.

Wouldn’t mind my own collector's cabinet. This one belonged to William Bragge (1823-1884). A civil engineer, antiquarian and author…he eventually established a museum and art gallery.

Mostly sliced and polished specimens of agates in this one.