Calum Hall

Marketing Manager for @ATandMT. Mull based artist from Essex. Artist Member @SocietyScotArt @VisArtsScot

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Scotland is aiming to be the world's first rewilded country. It's looking to rewild 30% of the country by 2030.

We have the solutions. Replenishing and protecting nature is one of them. #ActOnClimate

#climate #biodiversity #GreenNewDeal

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

One pretty cool geological fun fact is that the Appalachian Mountains, the Atlas Mountains, the Scottish Highlands, the Watkins Range and Scandinavian Mountains were all once part of the same mountain range, the Central Pangean Mountains

[Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astro_jaz]

OH MY GOD!!! EARLY ANALYSIS OF THE SAMPLE FROM ASTEROID BENNU REVEALED ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS FOR LIFE AND ITS BELIEVED IT CAME FROM AN ANCIENT OCEAN WORLD!!! THIS IS SO AMAZING!!

[Space 8K @uhd2020]

Stars from space 🥹

[Am Baile - Highland History & Culture @HighlandHistory]

A temporary bridge over the Caledonian Canal at Fort Augustus, circa 1932.

A. Fraser & Co. were one of the exhibitors in the photographs of the 1932 Highland Show that I shared yesterday!

[photo: Gordon Shennan; source: @InvMAG]

[Domhnall Macsween @sweenyness]

The Western Isles needs 1500 new families to combat population decline.

Thinking outside the box can only get us so far, unfortunately.

[William Duguid @WilliamDuguid1]

'We have to congratulate the Scottish media. In their attempts to throw mud at the former First Minister they have merely made her look like the most relatable politician in the country.'
@weegingerdug, via @ScotNational.
https://t.co/MR3FEEDSji

[Philip Coghill @philcoghill]

'The sooner "the Disneyfication of the Highlands and Islands stops" the better.'

@wodieskodie @CatrionaMurray2

[Andrew Thin @andrew_thin]

Scotland's system of regulated small scale land tenure (crofting) is the envy of many around the world. It provides a vital counterbalance to concentrated land ownership driven by unregulated market forces. Let's make more of it.
https://t.co/q5rFNMCC9s

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

So David Cameron is to sit in the House of Lords ("taking back control from unelected officials anyone?") in order to be Foreign Secretary - which means he won't be able to be questioned by MPs in the chamber over foreign policy. Doesn't seem very 21st century.

[Calum Hall @CalumOnMull]

Well, that didn’t come up in art history

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Reminder that modern art was a CIA psy-op.

Former CIA officials came clean on this during the '90s, confirming that the agency used abstract art by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and others to promote American culture during the Cold War.

The intent was to portray America as a bastion of intellectual and creative freedom. This was to rebut Soviet assertions that the U.S. was "culturally barren", and to contrast the cultural confinement of the Soviet empire, where artists had been restricted to painting Soviet realism since the 1930s.

Abstract Expressionism was seen as the most free and extreme form of artistic expression - the antithesis of Soviet rigidity. Modern art therefore became a weapon in the cultural war against communism.

Beginning in the 1950s, the CIA secretly funded a group called the Congress for Cultural Freedom, through which it funnelled money to international art shows, literary magazines and operated dozens of offices around the globe - all with the explicit goal of promoting American Abstract Expressionism.

These efforts, coined operation "long leash", were meant to demonstrate to disaffected Soviets and European intellectuals that American painters were free to invent, and offend; unlike under tyranny, where "artists are made the slaves and tools of the state", as Eisenhower once said.

Paradoxically, at the time the works of Pollock and de Kooning were not even broadly popular with the American public, and earlier, more open attempts to promote new American art by the State Department had been widely mocked. Even President Truman famously said, 'If that's art, I'm a Hottentot'', when visiting an exhibit purchased by the DOS.

Because of this, and because it would have been impossible to attain support for such a project through Congress, the CIA's covert operation was necessary to push Abstract Expressionism in secret.

Do you think this had a meaningful impact establishing abstract art as a legitimate movement, or would it have flourished anyway on its own merits?

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

A stockbroker named Nicholas Winton saved the lives of 669 Czechoslovakian children, most of them Jewish, by taking them to England.

He never told his wife what he had done. He refused to take credit until his wife found a scrapbook of the children he had saved and gave it to the BBC. This is what a real hero looks like.

[Calum Hall @CalumOnMull]

https://t.co/44kmf960BT

[Calum Hall @CalumOnMull]

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The Scottish Government is breaking its promise on arts funding, and trying to reimpose a £6.6 million cut to Creative Scotland. Scotland's arts and culture needs backing, not broken promises. Please join me in signing the @_CFTA petition. https://t.co/zLNH37mgpK

[Lorne MacLeod @LorneOban]

Profit after tax of £1,552,676 for South Uist Renewable Energy Ltd for the year end 31 December 2022 shows the benefit of community ownership of wind turbines. This allows the profits to be used to maintain, develop & benefit other parts of the community owned crofting estate.

[Mull Historical @MullHistorical]

Come to #Mull ! Fri 27th Oct >I’m at #tobermorybookfestival with my forthcoming novel 'When The Needle Drops' - plus performing tracks from my new MHS album 'IN MY MIND THERE'S A ROOM' with leading authors, which was recorded in Tobermory @colinmacIntyre
https://t.co/zCp5PLXds6