For the last two years I’ve been finding & sharing artworks relating to intelligence. Today I bring you “Budanov and the Magical Frog” (2024) by Ukrainian artist Yevgenia Gapchinska. It depicts Kyrylo Budanov then head of Ukrainian military intelligence #ArtofSpying #SlavaUkraini
Very much enjoyed Christian House’s piece in the FT this weekend about art and diplomacy #ArtofSpying - www.ft.com/content/ad73...
In my intelligence module I share an artwork relating to each week’s topic. This week it’s oversight, a relatively new process, but parliamentary committees have long been concerned with the state’s treatment of individuals. William Hogarth’s The Gaols Committee of the House of Commons. #ArtofSpying
In my intelligence module, Vigilant State, I share an artwork relating to each week’s topic. This week we’re discussing counterintelligence. I’ve selected ‘The Spy’ by Alphonse de Neuville (1880). Captured spies are a common theme in art on intelligence, I find this one quite moving #ArtofSpying
Each week I share artwork with students on my intelligence module. This week's topic is intelligence failure. I've chosen Preparations for D-Day (1944) by Richard Eurich from the Imperial War Museum a reminder that intel success for one side may be failure for another #ArtofSpying
Each week I share with students on my intelligence module, Vigilant State, an artwork relating to that week’s topic. This week we were discussing intelligence analysis and I selected ‘Road to Baghdad’ (1996) by Elwyn Lynn from the AustralianWar Memorial art collection #ArtofSpying
Continuing to collect artworks relating to intelligence. Struck by these from Australian War Memorial ‘Two types: Imperial and Colonial Intelligence Officer’ (1901) by Norman Hardy & untitled portrait of a member of the Australian Intelligence Corps, Afghanistan (2013) by Campbell Myers #ArtofSpying
I’m again sharing artworks with students on my intelligence module Vigilant State. I now have more paintings than topics but this week we’re discussing intelligence collection and I’ll find space for Burton Silverman’s portrait of “Emil Goldfus” aka Soviet illegal Rudolf Abel. #ArtofSpying
More holiday reading, I’ve been looking forward to reading this for a while - Intelligence and espionage in the English Republic 1600 - 60 by Alan Marshall, with some great cover art - The Hired Assassins by Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier, from the Wallace Collection #ArtofSpying
This year for my intelligence module, Vigilant State I’ve chosen an artwork for each week's topic. It's our final week. We'll be discussing agendas for intelligence research including diversity & inclusion. I've chosen James Hart Dyke's painting for MI6, "It's a lonely business" #ArtofSpying
This year for my intelligence module, Vigilant State, I’ve chosen an artwork to accompany each topic. This week it's intelligence oversight and accountability. With a nod to David Omand, I've chosen The Allegory of Good and Bad Government by Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1338) #ArtofSpying
This year for my intelligence module, Vigilant State, I’ve chosen an artwork to accompany each topic. This week it's intelligence liaison and I've chosen Spy Booth by Banksy (2014). Inspired, as far as we know, by the Snowden leaks regarding five-eyes surveillance #ArtofSpying
This year for my intelligence module, Vigilant State, I’ve chosen an artwork to accompany each topic. This week it's counterintelligence and I've chosen a real favourite of mine - 'The Spy' by Nicolae Grigorescu (1838) from the National Museum of Art of Romania #ArtofSpying
Prompted by my interest in artwork on intelligence I submitted an FOI request for a list of paintings hanging in the HQs of UK intelligence agencies. More details to follow but just to note the painting “The Dead Mole” hanging in the HQ of MI5 is a little on the nose #ArtofSpying
This year for my intelligence module, Vigilant State, I’ve chosen an artwork to accompany each topic. This week we're discussing covert action and I've chosen another painting from the CIA art collection, 'The First Sting' by Stuart Brown (2008) #ArtofSpying
This year for my intelligence module, Vigilant State, I’ve chosen an artwork to accompany each topic. This week we're discussing intelligence failure. I've chosen something close to home - 'The Bombardment of the Hartlepools (16 December 1914)' by James Clark, 1915 #ArtofSpying
This year for my intelligence module, Vigilant State, I’ve chosen an artwork to accompany each topic. This week we're discussing the intelligence/policymaker relationship. I've chosen 'Oliver Cromwell closeted with the Spy' (1850) by Patrick Allan Fraser #ArtofSpying
This year for my intelligence module, Vigilant State, I’ve chosen an artwork to accompany each topic. This week we're discussing intelligence analysis including different ways of interpreting the same information so I've chosen Salvador Dali's Old Couple or Musician #ArtofSpying
This year for my intelligence module, Vigilant State, I’ve chosen an artwork to accompany each topic. This week it’s intelligence collection. I’ve selected a more abstract piece, Masks by Dan Perfect which is currently hanging in the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service MI6 #ArtofSpying
This year for my intelligence module, Vigilant State, I’ve selected an artwork to accompany each topic. This week we're talking about intelligence as organisation, lots of photos of buildings so I've selected James Hart Dyke's painting of the MI6 headquarters at Vauxhall Cross #ArtofSpying
This year for my intelligence module, Vigilant State, I’ve selected an artwork to accompany each topic. This week we’re discussing definitions of intelligence. This painting of SOE/OSS member Virginia Hall by Jeffrey Bass depicts intelligence as organisation, information and activity #ArtofSpying
I used to open my lectures with paintings by James Dyke. His “year with MI6” series is fantastic #artofspying
This year for my intelligence module, Vigilant State, I've selected a piece of art to accompany each topic. For this week's introductory lecture on the history of intelligence we have the rainbow portrait of Elizabeth I, a remarkable image of intelligence as state power #ArtofSpying
