Christy
@christyr.bsky.social
Rearranges art. Writes about it. Takes too many photos.
Had a lovely time seeing this at the Barbican (and pretending I lived there).
December 7, 2024 at 8:25 PM
Had a lovely time seeing this at the Barbican (and pretending I lived there).
Lift Tower, Crockett & Jones, pink sky on my afternoon stroll in NN1.
November 27, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Lift Tower, Crockett & Jones, pink sky on my afternoon stroll in NN1.
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"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
November 4, 2024 at 7:53 AM
"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
Should never have gone to see Tracey Emin whilst I was already feeling a bit emotional.
November 3, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Should never have gone to see Tracey Emin whilst I was already feeling a bit emotional.
Just the most moving and beautiful exhibition I have seen in a long time.
I cried.
Embraced and Protected in You
PORTIA ZVAVAHERA: ZVAKAZARURWA
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge.
I cried.
Embraced and Protected in You
PORTIA ZVAVAHERA: ZVAKAZARURWA
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge.
October 31, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Just the most moving and beautiful exhibition I have seen in a long time.
I cried.
Embraced and Protected in You
PORTIA ZVAVAHERA: ZVAKAZARURWA
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge.
I cried.
Embraced and Protected in You
PORTIA ZVAVAHERA: ZVAKAZARURWA
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge.
Mind a bit blown by this today.
Go and see it!
Words to live by; words to live with.
David Parr House, Cambridge.
Go and see it!
Words to live by; words to live with.
David Parr House, Cambridge.
October 25, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Mind a bit blown by this today.
Go and see it!
Words to live by; words to live with.
David Parr House, Cambridge.
Go and see it!
Words to live by; words to live with.
David Parr House, Cambridge.
Vanessa Bell, A World of Form and Colour at Milton Keynes Art Gallery. Such a beautiful exhibition.
October 23, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Vanessa Bell, A World of Form and Colour at Milton Keynes Art Gallery. Such a beautiful exhibition.
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Neuroscience Shows That Viewing Art in Museums Engages the Brain More Than Reproductions
www.openculture.com/2024/10/neur...
www.openculture.com/2024/10/neur...
Neuroscience Shows That Viewing Art in Museums Engages the Brain More Than Reproductions
We may appreciate living in an era that doesn't require us to travel across the world to know what a particular work of art looks like.
www.openculture.com
October 21, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Neuroscience Shows That Viewing Art in Museums Engages the Brain More Than Reproductions
www.openculture.com/2024/10/neur...
www.openculture.com/2024/10/neur...
Van Gogh, Poets & Lovers at the National Gallery. If you like seeing the backs of people’s heads you’ll love this. (Luckily I do.)
October 21, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Van Gogh, Poets & Lovers at the National Gallery. If you like seeing the backs of people’s heads you’ll love this. (Luckily I do.)
Reposted by Christy
Words To Live By Number 90
October 18, 2024 at 5:36 PM
Words To Live By Number 90
Aurora over the cricket ground, NN1.
October 11, 2024 at 8:30 AM
Aurora over the cricket ground, NN1.
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No column from me today (back next week), just one of my fondant pink dahlias from the garden. 🌱
September 29, 2024 at 9:17 AM
No column from me today (back next week), just one of my fondant pink dahlias from the garden. 🌱
Lovely morning in NN1.
September 16, 2024 at 6:13 AM
Lovely morning in NN1.
Diversion at the end of a tunnel of fairy lights is the story of my life.
August 30, 2024 at 6:08 PM
Diversion at the end of a tunnel of fairy lights is the story of my life.
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Le Corbusier has been out tagging in Milton Keynes again
August 26, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Le Corbusier has been out tagging in Milton Keynes again
My £1 charity shop finds are improving all the time.
August 21, 2024 at 4:13 PM
My £1 charity shop finds are improving all the time.
Little trip to Milton Keynes Gallery to see MK Calling with a slightly reluctant thirteen year old. He loved it.
(Lisa Tilley, I'm OK and that's my Rebellion, 2024, hand embroidery on found textile.)
(Lisa Tilley, I'm OK and that's my Rebellion, 2024, hand embroidery on found textile.)
August 20, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Little trip to Milton Keynes Gallery to see MK Calling with a slightly reluctant thirteen year old. He loved it.
(Lisa Tilley, I'm OK and that's my Rebellion, 2024, hand embroidery on found textile.)
(Lisa Tilley, I'm OK and that's my Rebellion, 2024, hand embroidery on found textile.)
Reposted by Christy
Photoautomat,
Leopold Gallery, Vienna
Leopold Gallery, Vienna
August 15, 2024 at 7:58 AM
Photoautomat,
Leopold Gallery, Vienna
Leopold Gallery, Vienna
I saw this beautiful thing ages ago at the Royal Theatre in Northampton and was delighted to find it on iPlayer.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Four Quartets, Starring Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes’s exquisite performance of TS Eliots poetic masterpiece Four Quartets is translated from stage to screen by director Sophie Fiennes.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 31, 2024 at 8:24 PM
I saw this beautiful thing ages ago at the Royal Theatre in Northampton and was delighted to find it on iPlayer.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Seemed apt.
READ THE ROOM, Russell Frost, from this year’s Summer Exhibition at the RA.
READ THE ROOM, Russell Frost, from this year’s Summer Exhibition at the RA.
July 24, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Seemed apt.
READ THE ROOM, Russell Frost, from this year’s Summer Exhibition at the RA.
READ THE ROOM, Russell Frost, from this year’s Summer Exhibition at the RA.
It was this or the England game. Both, it was pointed out, probably major tests of my endurance. But two and three quarter hours with Emma Stone rather than 90 minutes with John Stones it is.
July 6, 2024 at 3:19 PM
It was this or the England game. Both, it was pointed out, probably major tests of my endurance. But two and three quarter hours with Emma Stone rather than 90 minutes with John Stones it is.
Peace at last. Deep peace. Expressed through the medium of kittens.
July 5, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Peace at last. Deep peace. Expressed through the medium of kittens.