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Aleks Koutny @koutny.bsky.social · 2d

Bookings are now open for my 7-week online Art Theory course at PACE, University of Cambridge, which will run from 27th Oct to 14th Dec 2025. We will explore how art has been written and thought about from classical antiquity to the modern era. More info here: www.pace.cam.ac.uk/courses/appr...

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Aleks Koutny @koutny.bsky.social · 23d

Shahzia Sikander is one of the artists whose work I will be discussing with students on my forthcoming Approaches to Western Art History course at PACE, University of Cambridge: www.pace.cam.ac.uk/courses/appr...

Approaches to Western Art History

www.pace.cam.ac.uk

Aleks Koutny @koutny.bsky.social · 23d

Just opened: Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior at Cantor Arts Centre
museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/...
September 17, 2025–January 25, 2026

Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior

museum.stanford.edu

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Aleks Koutny @koutny.bsky.social · 23d

Just visited the recently-opened new building of the Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie (Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw) - vast rooms containing a range of 20th and 21st-century art, with stunning views towards the Palace of Culture

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Aleks Koutny @koutny.bsky.social · Sep 9

Spotted in Ghent: the house where Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer lived when he stayed in the city in the 1520s

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · Aug 12

Join us this evening for an online discussion inspired by our Curious Cures exhibition!
🔗Register: loom.ly/ck4iTmI

Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · Jul 16

Join us for an online discussion inspired by our Curious Cures exhibition! Our panel of experts will 'dissect’ the medieval body, revealing how our ancestors thought their bodies functioned.

⏰12 August, 7-8pm
📍Online
🔗Register: https://loom.ly/ck4iTmI

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Lund Humphries @lhartbooks.bsky.social · Aug 5

Our 40% Summer Sale on books on Homes and Gardens has begun! The collection features books on cottages and country houses, from Edwardian style to Modernism and beyond. Use code Homes40 for 40% off from 1 August until 1 September 2025.
www.lundhumphries.com/collections/...

Summer Sale: Homes and Gardens

Surround yourself with the comforts of home and garden. Our sale collection features books on cottages and country houses, from Arts & Crafts to Californian Modernism and beyond. There's something...

www.lundhumphries.com

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Aleks Koutny @koutny.bsky.social · Aug 4

The 'Discovering Dürer' #exhibition has just closed at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. It showcased the printmaking of the Northern #Renaissance artist, Albrecht Dürer, and gave an insight into the conservation of historic printed images @fitzmuseum.bsky.social

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Aleks Koutny @koutny.bsky.social · Aug 3

CURIOUS CURES: MEDICINE IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD free #exhibition on until 6th December at the University Library, #Cambridge - highly recommended @theul.bsky.social!

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Aleks Koutny @koutny.bsky.social · Aug 2

A couple of intriguing literary objects on display at the TREASURED exhibition, now on at the Weston Library, #Oxford: a gold and coral rattle which belonged to the infant Percy Bysshe Shelley, and a portrait of Mary Shelley painted from a death mask @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Aleks Koutny @koutny.bsky.social · Aug 2

Over 3 years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has conserved, catalogued and digitised 190 manuscripts, containing 7000+ pages of medieval medical recipes. These recipes are now freely available on Cambridge Digital Library: www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...

Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible

Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...

www.lib.cam.ac.uk

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Aleks Koutny @koutny.bsky.social · Jul 31

Great to see so much engagement with this post! Taking a boat to Inner Farne this summer was a long-awaited treat as it wasn't possible to visit the island when I was growing up in the area. Luckily we had excellent weather on the day, following two days when boat crossings had been cancelled.

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Aleks Koutny @koutny.bsky.social · Jul 31

Culture and cake is a brilliant combination!

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Aleks Koutny @koutny.bsky.social · Jul 30

Bookings are open for my online art theory course at PACE, University of Cambridge, which starts in October 2025. The course is suitable for those who are new to art history, as well as students who have studied it before. More info here: www.pace.cam.ac.uk/courses/appr...

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Aleks Koutny @koutny.bsky.social · Jul 30

Modern art collection at the Møller Institute, Churchill College, Cambridge

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Aleks Koutny @koutny.bsky.social · Jul 30

Farne Islands, Northumberland. Inner Farne is famous for puffins, kittiwakes and arctic terns, as well as the medieval St Cuthbert's Chapel which, surprisingly, has 17th-century woodwork from Durham Cathedral. There's also a monument to Grace Darling, who rescued survivors from a shipwreck in 1838.

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Aleks Koutny @koutny.bsky.social · Jul 20

Starts tomorrow: my one-week course on art collecting at the International Summer Programme for PACE, Uni of Cambridge.

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Aleks Koutny @koutny.bsky.social · Jul 17

Ceramic highlights (decorative tiles and 18th-century vases and plates) from the National Museum in Gdańsk, Poland, a port city on the Baltic coast

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Aleks Koutny @koutny.bsky.social · Jul 2

More about the exhibition here: www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/...

The Carracci Cartoons: Myths in the Making | Exhibitions | National Gallery, London

www.nationalgallery.org.uk

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Aleks Koutny @koutny.bsky.social · Jul 2

Just a few more days to catch this free #exhibition - 'The Carracci Cartoons: Myths in the Making' - @nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social Well worth it!

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Aleks Koutny @koutny.bsky.social · Jun 16

New open-access publication of historic sermons by Stefan Javors’kyj (1658–1722), a Ukrainian poet and preacher of the late 17th century, free to download from @degruyterbrill.bsky.social brill.com/display/titl...

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Aleks Koutny @koutny.bsky.social · Jun 16

Haha!

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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · Jun 16

A painting by renowned Polish artist Jacek Malczewski has sold for 22.2 million zloty (€5.2 million) – a new record for an artwork sold in Poland.

A previous sale - also for a record price - collapsed amid doubts over the legality of the work's ownership, which have now been dismissed.

Malczewski painting becomes Poland’s most expensive artwork after €5.2m sale

notesfrompoland.com

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · Jun 9

Christ teaching the elders in the Temple, from The Small Travel Book (a portable Ruthenian breviary) printed by Francis Skaryna in Vilnius (1522)

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · Jun 9

Marble fruit - two apples and a pear - right down to some overripe parts, late 16th century. These were used for decoration and also sometimes, apparently, mixed in with real fruit ... for the laugh. Hilarious. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

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