DrMLBanting

Independent researcher: 20thC Art & Visual Culture London, Paris, Moscow. Works in (slow) progress (1) British Art Groups (2) Nancy Cunard - An Uncommon Viewer.

[DrMLBanting @TheCommonViewer]

Nancy Cunard

"Up and at 'em!"

[photo by John Banting @Tate https://t.co/o1Cem6PWQL]

[Ian Willoughby @Ian_Willoughby]

With Wittgenstein in a Gay Sauna by Czech author Vratislav Maňák, and an exhibition he curated at Prague's DOX, are in the spotlight in the Guardian.

https://t.co/rc9JsJ6mpW

[myaskofiev 2 @madigan_melvyn]

Lydia Sokolova of the Ballets Russes: "On 11 November 1918 came Armistice Day. We gave our two performances just the same, but after the second house I walked down into Trafalgar Square, where crowds were collecting... Everyone seems to have been in Trafalgar Square that night."

[Ukrainian Art History @ukr_arthistory]

Harvesting and planting potatoes are so popular in Ukrainian art (and life) that I'm not even kidding anymore about an exhibition of these artworks.

David Burliuk
Potato Farmers, 1947

[Sir William Orpen @SirWilliamOrpen]

Armistice Night, Amiens, France by Sir William Orpen 1918. #WWI

[Novaya Gazeta Europe @novayagazeta_en]

‘That’s it’. Novaya Gazeta team vacates its Moscow office

Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Sergey Sokolov held the final editorial meeting at the newspaper’s office in Moscow on Monday, SOTAvision has reported.

The meeting was attended by the outlet’s former editor-in-chief, Dmitry Muratov, as well as staff members and representatives from other media organisations, including CNN and Reuters.

📹 | RusNews

[EdwardMO 🌻 @EdwardHMO]

"Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens..." — Martha Gellhorn #botd

📷 Lee Miller

[Sir William Orpen @SirWilliamOrpen]

A self-portrait by official war artist Sir William Orpen wearing a helmet and a sleeveless sheepskin jacket with a battle torn landscape and grave.
#WWI @I_W_M

[The Art Guide @The_Art_Guide]

Cedric Morris' (1889–1982) landscape painting, 'Serra de Monchique, Portugal,' 1950, oil/canvas. Morris was born in South Wales, but worked mainly in East Anglia. He visited Portugal to search out rare/wild floweres, specific to the region for his garden at Benton End in Suffolk

[Nick Spence @Nickfromupnorth]

Nancy Cunard at the Hours Press, her publishing house at 15 Rue Guénégaud, Paris, 1930 (Keystone-France / Gamma-Keystone / Getty)

[AniSWISSarts @AniSWISSarts]

Vanessa Bell (British, 1879 - 1961) - Mrs St John Hutchinson, c 1915

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

“There’s a war on!” I notice the word ‘war’ increasingly in the Russian press, though officially Moscow still refers to its ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine. In today’s papers: enemies, drone attacks & what may become “the longest investment crisis in modern Russian history.” #ReadingRussia

[myaskofiev 2 @madigan_melvyn]

Diaghilev's revival of The Sleeping Beauty premiered 2 Nov 1921 in London. 'The Sleeping Princess' was an extravagant, costly production that nearly put the Ballets Russes out of business. There were ominous signs on opening night when stage machinery failed and sets collapsed.

[Memorial in English @EnMemorial]

A statement by the International Memorial Association and the Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre on the closure of Novaya Gazeta.

Translated into English by our team

[Michael Kimmage @mkimmage]

A new @AKurkov essay, from the @kennaninstitute Dispatches series, that tells of the dislocations and ruptures of wartime by detailing the assault on Ukraine's nature and on its animals - and of course on the people who live in nature and with animals.

https://t.co/1IGvJLBAO3

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

I love this portrait of the Tudor monarch Elizabeth I, wearing this dress with eyes and ears - depicting the ultimate spymistress!

[T. Talin d'Eyzac @Ttalindeyzac]

‘Tamara de Lempicka in her studio’,
1925

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Artist Georgia O'Keeffe Pouring Tea at the Ghost Ranch, 1962 (images by T.Webb) #womensart 🫖

[EdwardMO 🌻 @EdwardHMO]

Le Bal élégant, La Danse à la campagne
Marie Laurencin #botd

Exhibited at the Salon des Independants, Paris, 1913

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

“There are different ways to commit murder. They chose to strangle us,” journalist Dmitry Muratov tells me, after Russia’s most prominent independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta is forced to close. Our report from Moscow. Producer @BBCBenTavener

[Mordecai @MenschOhneMusil]

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Le Rêve (The Dream) 1883.