Lydia R Figes

Curator @ContempArtSoc Writer + Editor. Words in @dazed @AnOtherMagazine @i_D @Apollo_magazine @ElephantMag @guardian etc. Rep @Kat_Aitken

[Tharries @TharriesYT]

I think there needs to be a conversation about older people being radicalised online because that conversation is only ever framed through the prism of young people when evidently it’s happening to the older generation too. It’s really scary these are people’s grandparents.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

This is James Orr.

James is the head of policy for Reform UK. He also works for Cambridge university.

James believes gay marriage is wrong, and believes abortion should be illegal.

James Orr has also been linked to a far right eugenicist movement involving Peter Theil and Nathan Cofnas that claims black people are less intellect than white people.

Safeguarding concerns have been raised about his conduct with students at Cambridge, with regards to unprofessional boundaries (them living with him) and concerns about far right grooming. Cambridge have ignored these concerns.

Pretty alarming stuff.

[Michael Walsh @thatbloodyMikey]

Fucking disturbing shit, quite frankly. But this is where we are. Start taking it seriously, because this will be your Next Government.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Jason Arday's story has "fallen" off the news cycle. But we cannot let this stand. Shame has to change sides, as Gisele Pelicot told us. And it's now our turn: the UK press needs to take a long, hard look at itself.
https://t.co/EC3YtgFH8Y

[Contemporary Art Society @ContempArtSoc]

This week’s Friday Dispatch, written by the CAS’s Curator of Digital Lydia Figes, looks at Rinko Kawauchi's show 'At the edge of the everyday world' at Arnolfini.

Read the full essay by CAS's Curator of Digital, Lydia Figes here: https://t.co/PO9Rq8YNAh

[Contemporary Art Society @ContempArtSoc]

This week’s Friday Dispatch, written by the CAS's Curator of Digital Lydia Figes, looks at the latest solo show at Phillida Reid gallery by Celia Hempton.

📸 Installation image by Benjamin Westoby. Courtesy the artist and Phillida Reid, London.

[Lydia R Figes @LydiaRFiges]

My latest for @Dazed

https://t.co/mlB76S5biS

[Dazed @Dazed]

From a celebration of the most outré club in fashion history to an alternative art fair featuring the city’s more radical independent galleries, there’s plenty to do if you don’t have tickets to Frieze
https://t.co/v52VCYLLPz

[AnOther Magazine @AnOtherMagazine]

From Lin Zhipeng’s tender shots of Chinese youth culture to Carla Williams’ erotically-charged self-portraits, these photo stories published on AnOther in 2023 celebrate intimacy, sensuality and sexuality
https://t.co/NwlYLLG1sj

[AnOther Magazine @AnOtherMagazine]

Evelyn Richter’s Photos Reveal the Reality of Life in East Germany

✍️ by @LydiaRFiges https://t.co/v2YUlMub4d

[The Critic @TheCriticMag]

A major Paris exhibition highlights the timeless themes of a Finnish artist’s oeuvre. @LydiaRFiges reflects on Tove Jansson as a trailblazing yet complex figure who forged her own unconventional and defiant path https://t.co/BuearV9nui

[The Critic @TheCriticMag]

@LydiaRFiges

[i-D @i_D]

Allen Ginsberg's vintage portraits of the Beat generation https://t.co/Jth2DUKZhE

[Dazed @Dazed]

The photographer reimagining the cult fashion and film of the 1970s https://t.co/RK9epJPydT

[AnOther Magazine @AnOtherMagazine]

Gareth McConnell 🦄 https://t.co/DAuonFdAdM

[AnOther Magazine @AnOtherMagazine]

“It’s almost like I created an Americanised view of an English town,” says Callum Hansen of his first solo show, which captures his friends in the English midlands during the pandemic
https://t.co/1TRAxM1JAy

[Online Artist Book @HenriNiotou]

Iranian women asleep on a bus… #FarnazDamnabi’s best photograph
https://t.co/Yo8Ox9vH7l Interview by @LydiaRFiges

[Art UK @artukdotorg]

David Remfry's enduring concern for human connection is clear in his art — and has also inspired his curatorial approach for this year's upcoming Summer Exhibition at @royalacademy

@LydiaRFiges caught up with Remfry in his London studio: https://t.co/jOcEYpUgsh

[Janique Vigier @livingcurrency]

Rachel Cusk on Annie Ernaux… wild when something is written for me https://t.co/DM87EsxuSq