Dr Leon B

Academic, Researcher, #Modernism, Café Culture. Current projects: Tyros, Wyndham Lewis & the Arts, and Selected letters of David Bomberg.

[Dr Leon B @LeonBetsworth]

So, this is cool. Researchers at the Courtauld discover that Helen Saunders's Vorticist work, 'Atlantic City' reproduced in BLAST #2 (1915), is UNDERNEATH Wyndham Lewis's 'Praxitella' (1921). X-rays reveal that Saunders's work was inverted (3rd pic) https://t.co/V6dfrlkwZX

[Dr Leon B @LeonBetsworth]

@dieworkwear Speaking of handmade: I'm just reading your article on loafers https://t.co/xvfqnL4rld and wondered if you had advice on what questions to ask a shoemaker to get an idea of quality. I'm specifically looking at Alessandro Gasparini's 'moccaso'. Any thoughts appreciated.

[Dr Leon B @LeonBetsworth]

@ahistoryinart Interesting! Who made the 'Hogarthian' observation?

[Toby Ord @tobyordoxford]

The James Webb Space Telescope has started capturing images of galaxies so far away that they are causally disconnected from the Earth — nothing done here or there could ever interact. 🧵
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[Nooruddean @BeardedGenius]

Happy St George’s Day to all who celebrate

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

The one American at a European academic conference

[Dr Leon B @LeonBetsworth]

@ajbwells There's a little bit in Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin; Dino Buzzati's short story: 'sette piani'; Blai Bonet's 'el Mar'...

[Jo Cottrell @Madamejojo]

Programme recently announced for Futurism in Progress Symposium at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, 20 February. Details here: https://t.co/tJ0QpRxODs

[Blood Meridian @BloodMeridianQT]

They rode on.

[Dr. Bendor Grosvenor 🇺🇦 @arthistorynews]

🚨 Image fees and UK museums - a breakthrough moment. The system is collapsing. There is now no reason to pay fees for historic artworks (2D) in most cases.

The UK's art history tax is over. Scholars, the public *and museums* will be better off. A 🧵

[Dr Leon B @LeonBetsworth]

Some great passages being shared on the TL. Blood Meridian is prolly my alltime favourite reading experience. I devoured Child of God just last week, highlighting thruout. "Mayhaps the bird felt it too. It flew. Small. Tiny. Gone". RIP CM.

[Dr. Bendor Grosvenor 🇺🇦 @arthistorynews]

I asked the National Gallery how much money they make from image fees (the licensing cost if you want to publish works in their collection). After initially refusing to answer, they confirmed that actually they lose money. 1/3

[Dr Jonathan Vernon @JonathanPVernon]

Today and tomorrow, @mPICASSOm presents a modern sculpture symposium alongside its exhibition 'Picasso and Sculpture: Matter and Body' (runs to 9 Sept).

I'm speaking tomorrow, at 6pm CEST, on the 'apartness' of modern sculpture. Sign up here: https://t.co/QIt48a7g6E

[Dr Leon B @LeonBetsworth]

@jntod

[Kirsty Sedgman @KirstySedgman]

I haven’t done a #TheatreEtiquette thread for a while, but for those who don’t know, my book The Reasonable Audience is all about ‘bad behaviour’ in theatres & how it gets policed.

This thread explains how we got here, and why I think we’re going to be seeing more of this. 🧵

[Edvard Munch @artistmunch]

Book recommendation 🎨📖

Making Modernism: Paula Modersohn-Becker, Käthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin https://t.co/7qFDgZkkIu

[Dr Leon B @LeonBetsworth]

@becimay Nice! There also lies a sham 'me', I suppose.

[Henrik Karlsson @phokarlsson]

How I write an essay.

[Dr Leon B @LeonBetsworth]

@GreenBowlerHat Cool AF

[Paintings of London @PaintingsLondon]

'Full English’, Rock Steady Eddie's, Coldharbour Lane, Camberwell || 2006 || Ed Gray
https://t.co/QNb2DUKRFt

[Borough Road Collection Archive @BRdGallery]

Borough Group artist Lilian Holt features in Action, Gesture, Paint @_TheWhitechapel Go for the rare opportunity to see Holt’s paintings of Ronda, where she lived with husband David Bomberg. Artist Susanna Richmond describes staying in Ronda 1/2