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British Journal of Photography @1854.photography · 17d

The Austin-born artist engages with the Texas African-American Photography Archive to reveal a compelling portrait of kinship in the American South 1854.photo/46B9MA7

Rahim Fortune paints with colour for his latest exhibition at CPW, Kingston - 1854 Photography

The Austin-born artist engages with the Texas African-American Photography Archive to reveal a compelling portrait of kinship in the American South

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Manik @manik.bsky.social · 28d

hey the people that stormed the capitol and erected gallows to murder elected leaders want you to know that political violence is not ok

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Aoife Herrity 🇵🇸 @aoifeherrity.bsky.social · Aug 25

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Heather Agyepong: On embodiment and the self

Podcast Episode · The Photo Ethics Podcast · 20/08/2025 · 38m

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Aoife Herrity 🇵🇸 @aoifeherrity.bsky.social · Aug 3

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · Aug 1

You can't call yourself "a prize for LGBTQ+ literature" and longlist a self-proclaimed terf. Anyone can give any prize to anyone they like, of course. But don't pretend you're a prize for my community when you're platforming someone who's actively fighting against it.

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Aoife Herrity 🇵🇸 @aoifeherrity.bsky.social · Jul 29

“Our complicity in the West and in our industry is marked by the silence of our institutions, and the gatekeepers at their helms, prioritising corporate sponsorship above moral clarity.”
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1000wordsmag.com/arles-2025-s... Arles 2025: staging radicality within safe limits?

Arles 2025: staging radicality within safe limits?

Is the art world willing to take real political risks, or does it perform radicality within safe limits? What to make of aesthetic gestures of dissent without institutional accountability and without ...

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Aoife Herrity 🇵🇸 @aoifeherrity.bsky.social · Jul 25

www.frieze.com/article/arti... How Artists Are Responding to the Horrors of the Magdalene Laundries | Frieze

How Artists Are Responding to the Horrors of the Magdalene Laundries

For decades, Irish institutions concealed women’s suffering through silence. Now, contemporary artists are confronting these traumatic histories to foster awareness and healing

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Aoife Herrity 🇵🇸 @aoifeherrity.bsky.social · Jul 25

“Where a full stop bangs down the hard end, the bookend to a sentence, to a thought, the dash is liquid. It flows two ways, both ways. Meaning can move against the current, eddy back up the sentence or flow down.” Robert Macfarlane on the em dash.

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · Jul 24

Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”

Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship

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Aoife Herrity 🇵🇸 @aoifeherrity.bsky.social · Jul 18

“If discontinued, many artists would be thrust back into the cycle of precarious employment, underemployment, or forced reliance on social welfare systems.”

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The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social · Jul 3

New short story, The Lake by Juliana Adelman as part of our online fiction series.

"The day of the first accident wasn’t especially hot or sunny, I remember. We were having a barbecue in the car park for my son’s eighteenth birthday."

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Aoife Herrity 🇵🇸 @aoifeherrity.bsky.social · Jul 3

‘…film and photography as mediums of memory, repetition and resistance.’ Also a sound piece accessed via a trap door. I’m keen to hear it and to see the installation images.

ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · Jul 3

Transformation is often gradual, as ‘time heals, just not quick enough…’ at Efie Gallery, Dubai reminds us artreview.com/time-heals-j...

When the Camera Is a Tool for Resistance

Transformation is often gradual, as ‘time heals, just not quick enough…’ at Efie Gallery, Dubai reminds us

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Aoife Herrity 🇵🇸 @aoifeherrity.bsky.social · Jul 3

Archivo Papers Vol. 5: interesting perspectives on the archive and its role in contemporary visual practice.

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Vol. 5 (2025): Archives and Contemporary Visual Art: Normalised Practices and Non-normative Historiographies | Archivo Papers

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · Jul 2

Today is a good day to reflect on the incredible work @younghorgan.bsky.social, @secondcaptains.bsky.social, and BBC Sounds undertook for and around the Where Is George Gibney? podcast.

It remains a brilliant, thorough, hugely empathic and influential piece of journalism.

George Gibney facing 79 charges relating to alleged sexual abuse of four girls

George Gibney: Ex-Irish Olympic swim coach is to appear in court in US next week following arrest

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · Jun 15

Want to hear something totally out of this world?

How about the echolocation calls of lesser horseshoes – Ireland's rarest + smallest bat – as they head out from their roost at dusk to hunt midges and other insects over an Atlantic rainforest?

Volume up!

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Aoife Herrity 🇵🇸 @aoifeherrity.bsky.social · Jun 11

Very relatable observations on autistic burnout and the desire for solitude.

TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · Jun 11

New podcast. I chat with world renowned psychologist professor Bruce Hood about Happiness, Magical Thinking, Neurodivergence and Philosophy. I also speak about my current experience of autistic burnout, for the benefit of my neurodivergent listeners. Dog Bless ❤️ open.spotify.com/episode/5Mie...

The Science of Happiness with an expert Psychologist

The Blindboy Podcast · Episode

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · Jun 10

If you’re rioting or even just protesting because a foreigner has been accused of rape, but you never rioted or protested when a white Irish bloke was accused of rape, you are not a defender of women and are - quite literally - just a racist

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Jun 10

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.”

Doechii at the #BETAwards

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Jun 9

" I also believe that those of us who are older, whiter, safer from the threats of state violence do not have the moral ground to lecture the younger, browner and blacker, more directly impacted demographic on what they should and should not do." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...

Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence

I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...

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Aoife Herrity 🇵🇸 @aoifeherrity.bsky.social · Jun 9

We’re all just out here trying to be brave like Tiki 😭

Aoife Herrity 🇵🇸 @aoifeherrity.bsky.social · Jun 6

“I don’t know if the trustees of the British Museum recognize that so much of that space feels like a crime scene to so many cultures…”

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Misan Harriman

Podcast Episode · Talk Art · S25 E2 · 1h 4m

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LiteraryVienna @literaryvienna.bsky.social · Jun 1

„It is June. I am tired of being brave.“

Anne Sexton

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Aoife Herrity 🇵🇸 @aoifeherrity.bsky.social · Jun 1

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · May 28

From Yorgos Lanthimos to David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch to Harmony Korine, a growing number of filmmakers are turning their hand to exhibitions of visual art. What could go wrong? artreview.com/the-rise-of-...

A Director Walks into a Gallery: The Rise of Auteur Art

A growing number of filmmakers are turning their hand to exhibitions of visual art. What could go wrong?

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · May 28

Ending a six-year battle that stirred ethical and legal debates about the ownership of photographs taken under duress, Harvard University has surrendered its claim to 15 daguerreotypes at the center of a lawsuit brought by Tamara Lanier, a descendant of enslaved individuals.

Harvard Relinquishes Photographs of Enslaved People in Historic Settlement

Tamara Lanier, who sued the school in 2019 over daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors held in its museum, called the outcome “a turning point in American history.”

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