Illuminations
@illuminations.bsky.social
Media producer of arts docs, screen performance; posts by John Wyver, Professor of the Arts on Screen, Univ of Westminster; broadcasting history, esp early TV, theatre, film, visual art
Images: Man w the Flower, ‘30 / de Stael, Le Saladier (detail), ‘54
Images: Man w the Flower, ‘30 / de Stael, Le Saladier (detail), ‘54
Can't resist - sorry.
Magic Rays of Light spotted by my brilliant copy editor Liz Hudson in Waterstones Piccadilly
Magic Rays of Light spotted by my brilliant copy editor Liz Hudson in Waterstones Piccadilly
January 16, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Can't resist - sorry.
Magic Rays of Light spotted by my brilliant copy editor Liz Hudson in Waterstones Piccadilly
Magic Rays of Light spotted by my brilliant copy editor Liz Hudson in Waterstones Piccadilly
From time to time I amuse myself posting photos of elaborate assemblies of scaffolding that I encounter; this impressive frontage is just opposite the London Palladium.
January 13, 2026 at 10:07 PM
From time to time I amuse myself posting photos of elaborate assemblies of scaffolding that I encounter; this impressive frontage is just opposite the London Palladium.
Current NFT2 ticketing for the Television Arrives! screening of early documentaries this evening at 6.15pm.
January 8, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Current NFT2 ticketing for the Television Arrives! screening of early documentaries this evening at 6.15pm.
For more than 60 years I have had tinned grapefruit for Christmas Day breakfast; today is not the day to break that tradition. Happy Christmas 🎄
December 25, 2025 at 7:52 AM
For more than 60 years I have had tinned grapefruit for Christmas Day breakfast; today is not the day to break that tradition. Happy Christmas 🎄
And here’s the dead Marat
December 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
And here’s the dead Marat
And here she is in full
December 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
And here she is in full
Here’s another body part by the same painter
December 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Here’s another body part by the same painter
… here’s a detail from one of the paintings I saw. Whose feet?
December 12, 2025 at 7:13 PM
… here’s a detail from one of the paintings I saw. Whose feet?
I have been in Paris today, looking at art, and I have had a very good time…
December 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I have been in Paris today, looking at art, and I have had a very good time…
Well that was worth getting up for - ha!
December 4, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Well that was worth getting up for - ha!
Sunday pilgrimage
December 1, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Sunday pilgrimage
Spike Lee at excellent q&a after screening of Highest2Lowest this morning - and just before he went to the derby. Loved the film (apart from maybe the final 15 minutes), which is a quintessential NYC movie, and a movie about NYC movies: Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, French Coonection are its forbears.
November 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Spike Lee at excellent q&a after screening of Highest2Lowest this morning - and just before he went to the derby. Loved the film (apart from maybe the final 15 minutes), which is a quintessential NYC movie, and a movie about NYC movies: Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, French Coonection are its forbears.
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Here’s that side shot with three brands. Not the BBC is it?
November 21, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Here’s that side shot with three brands. Not the BBC is it?
Neat new tech at TNT Sports
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Neat new tech at TNT Sports
… and three more (!) brands, electronically imposed, in the less-often-used side shot @TNT Sports.
November 21, 2025 at 2:52 AM
… and three more (!) brands, electronically imposed, in the less-often-used side shot @TNT Sports.
Four (!) on-field brands in the wide shots at TNT Sports coverage…
November 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Four (!) on-field brands in the wide shots at TNT Sports coverage…
How completely weird is this! But nice too.
Doing some reading about director Tony Richardson (ahead of an intro next month at BFI Southbank), I opened at random Don Radovich's 1995 'Tony Richardson: A Bio-Bibliography, published by Greenwood Press in 1995.
And I found this...
Doing some reading about director Tony Richardson (ahead of an intro next month at BFI Southbank), I opened at random Don Radovich's 1995 'Tony Richardson: A Bio-Bibliography, published by Greenwood Press in 1995.
And I found this...
November 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
How completely weird is this! But nice too.
Doing some reading about director Tony Richardson (ahead of an intro next month at BFI Southbank), I opened at random Don Radovich's 1995 'Tony Richardson: A Bio-Bibliography, published by Greenwood Press in 1995.
And I found this...
Doing some reading about director Tony Richardson (ahead of an intro next month at BFI Southbank), I opened at random Don Radovich's 1995 'Tony Richardson: A Bio-Bibliography, published by Greenwood Press in 1995.
And I found this...
Courtauld cafe after the Wayne Thiebaud exhibition 🙂
November 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Courtauld cafe after the Wayne Thiebaud exhibition 🙂
Only two rooms, but a stellar show
November 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Only two rooms, but a stellar show
Cakes by Wayne Thiebaud at Courtauld, Somerset House
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Cakes by Wayne Thiebaud at Courtauld, Somerset House
... and that's me done, I think - proofs, queries, final checks, the lot.
October 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
... and that's me done, I think - proofs, queries, final checks, the lot.