Kardomah

Kardomah

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Profile pic is from a t-shirt I bought decades ago in HMV.
Banner pic is the shopfront of a Kardomah cafe.

Art, Design, Ancient Near East, history, architecture, cultural history, photography, and random stuff

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“The disquieting slash through the sitter’s neck, which the Fry family have so discerningly chosen to keep, tells such an important story.” German border guards would slash packing cases with their bayonets – checking for any escapers from Vienna. The oil painting was inside one of those cases.

Slashed painting owned by Stephen Fry’s mother tells chilling story of fleeing from Naziswww.theguardian.com 1920s canvas of Dutch woman, to be shown for first time at Holt festival, has slit from border guards’ bayonets

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I was angry and wrote about it.

Canadians in a state of mourning over what turned out to be an illusion. But then, character isn’t equated with art.

Andrea Robin Skinner reminds us that monsters lurk within classic Canadian literaturewww.theglobeandmail.com Skinner is reshaping a narrative that turned a woman’s terrible decisions into near-literary sainthood, reminding us that character isn’t correlated with great art

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2 years ago the Daily Mail used one of my tweets in an article about airport chaos. They asked me if they could use it but before I could tell them to fuck off, they used it anyway. They'd embedded my tweet as opposed to screenshotting it so I did what was required of me.

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‘We want to ruffle a few feathers’: Liverpool gallery confronts colonial pastwww.theguardian.com Walker Art Gallery replaces Tinted Venus with sculpture of black child to explore links to slavery and empire

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“ In the largest public sector trial of the four-day week in Britain, fewer refuse collectors quit and there were faster planning decisions, more rapid benefits processing and quicker call answering, independent research has found.” #WorkLifeBalance www.theguardian.com/business/art...

Largest UK public sector trial of four-day week sees huge benefits, research findswww.theguardian.com Exclusive: South Cambridgeshire experiment led to fewer refuse collectors quitting and faster planning decisions

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Sergio Larraín From his series London, the City, 1958-9

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In June of 1926 the Hungarian-born American photographer Nickolas Muray visited Claude Monet at his home in Giverny. You can tell that he's a big fan!

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Oh goody, my overseas UK postal voting pack arrived today. "We must get your postal vote by 10pm on Thursday 04 July 2024". Postmarked 1 July 2024. The only time I've had mail fast enough for that to be feasible between Australia and the UK was with FedEx Priority.

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I feel the need to carve some Roman rustics. Quote from Cicero's "De finibus bonorum et malorum" (On the ends of good and evil) which gave us 'Lorem Ipsum', the printer's fill text, used since the 1500s. #loremipsum #cicero #rustics #roman #lettering

Fascinating story of an old man who lived for years in the alcove above Camden tube station. He was Polish, flew with the RAF during the 2nd world war, but much of his life is a mystery. www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/do-y...

Do you know what happened to Stan?www.camdennewjournal.co.uk While going through some negatives, photographer Rupert Simmington remembered snapping a Polish war veteran who became a familiar face living in Camden Town tube station. Who was this mystery man? Dan...

Look at that paw 😄

This is amazing. Video footage at the link. "In an unprecedented display of extended eagle parenting, the two white-tailed parents skipped this year's breeding season to continue to tend to their year-old offspring." Its wing was broken when the nest fell to the ground last year.

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White-tailed eagles: Footage reveals 'miracle chick' in flightwww.bbc.com A white-tailed eagle that broke its wing has taken to the skies after its parents nursed it back to health.

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The Thames Foreshore is an archaeological treasure trove spanning millennia of London’s history. Most people walking high up on the embankment have no idea of the wealth of ancient features below. Absolute privilege to see Saxon fish traps, Iron Age posts, prehistoric peat & old mooring features.

Great thread on the art & artists featured on the walls of the Overlook Hotel. Plenty of the Group of Seven! Can't believe I've never noticed.

The Shining is my favourite movies, and a movie I watch once a year or so. But did you know that The Overlook Hotel is absolutely FULL of Canadian art? Follow along as I take you on a tour of the haunted hotel, and the Canadian artistry inside! 👇🖼️ 🧵1/18

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly

This was written last week but in the end, I did take my son with me when I voted. He misunderstood the word "party" in my rushed explanation of who people vote for, and asked the poll workers if they had any snacks. He also declared who I voted for out loud to the entire room.

"It is exceedingly rare for a building under the age of 30 years old to be granted listed status" "Grade II reflects its national significance – a ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ (or total artwork) of architecture, interior and landscape design." Sphinx Hill, Oxfordshire c20society.org.uk/news/thames-...

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*stares in Lionesses*

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Cash machine appears on side of bridge www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sonning Bridge: Cash machine appears on side of bridge - BBC Newswww.bbc.co.uk The device on Sonning Bridge in Berkshire visibly bears all the hallmarks of a regular cash machine.

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This is the Basilica Cistern, built in the 6th century by Justinian I to provide constant water pressure to Constantinople's Great Palace and fountains district. Some of the supporting columns have a unique feature.

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Terribly saddened to learn of passing of Dorothy Lichtenstein, widow of artist Roy Lichtenstein. As a former member of the Lichtenstein Foundation board, I came to know her as an incredibly thoughtful, generous, and caring person. She will be missed (Andy Warhol, Dorothy Lichtenstein, 1974)

Have to say I'm really happy to see this - James Timpson (of shoe repair and key-cutting dynasty) has been given a role in the new govt. Known for founding a network linking prisons with employers to improve employment opportunities for ex-offenders upon release. It's an inspired appointment.

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THE BUKKIT!

New from me for Live Science. 🏺🧪

Missing pieces of 6th-century Byzantine bucket finally found at Sutton Hoowww.livescience.com Archaeologists at Sutton Hoo, a 1,400-year-old boat burial in England, have discovered pieces of a broken bucket from the Byzantine Empire.

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She's one of my heroines. And Rathbone Place isn't even named after her, is it - the whole family were philanthropic, as I'm sure you know. It's just frustrating that typically at that time, despite being so actively involved the welfare movement, they were also involved in the cotton trade.

The Rathbones – Liverpool History Societyliverpoolhistorysociety.org.uk

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Seems rather bizarre to write a long piece about Eleanor Rathbone and the only mention of Liverpool is a throwaway “she is also remembered…” www.theguardian.com/society/arti...

‘100% feminist’: how Eleanor Rathbone invented child benefit – and changed women’s lives for everwww.theguardian.com She was an MP and author with a formidable reputation, fighting for the rights of women and refugees, and opposing the appeasement of Hitler. Why isn’t she better known today?

Ah, well... that explains the famous time-slips that have occurred in nearby Bold Street 😉 This one is the most well-known, but there are many. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

Arcane experiments to probe the very limits of the universe conducted in a crypt. Mysterious machines funded by a bankrupt postwar government as a critical priority. An entire cathedral then built atop the abandoned crypt. Quatermass? No, Liverpool. physicsworld.com/a/the-legacy...

The legacy of Liverpool’s forgotten synchrocyclotron – Physics Worldphysicsworld.com The University of Liverpool’s synchrocyclotron helped define physics in the 20th century, yet little trace of it remains. Rob Lea looks into the history of this lost machine

Bold Street 'timeslips' that 'transported people into the past'www.liverpoolecho.co.uk Over the years, a number of people claim to have 'slipped' into another time period

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My neighbor is riding around the neighborhood on a mower with an umbrella cockatoo in a flamenco dress on her arm

Mood for most of the last 8 years. Hoping for some respite on Friday morning.