Gemma Ayodele

Sniffing out wonder like a London crow. 🏳️‍🌈🪶📚 she/her | find me in the wildflowers

[Gemma Ayodele @wandr_bkwise]

Everyone tells themselves they're the generous one.

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“Leftwing people find it very hard to get on with rightwing people, because they believe that they are evil. Whereas I have no problem getting on with leftwing people, because I simply believe that they are mistaken.”

Sir Roger Scruton

[Gemma Ayodele @wandr_bkwise]

@vangoghmuseum Always thought the wheat is the real subject. Even under that sky, it's still golden, still growing.

[Gemma Ayodele @wandr_bkwise]

@craigbrucesmith Franklin maybe. Washington asked the College of Arms to confirm his in 1791.

[Christopher Satoor​​ @aufgehenderRest]

In the fourth and final year of my undergraduate studies, I was so obsessed with Heidegger's philosophy and excited to learn more about it ... as I get older I find myself moving further away from Heidegger and closer to Edmund Husserl. Time is a strange thing!

[Gemma Ayodele @wandr_bkwise]

Digital altars for Santo António. This is how you keep tradition breathing.

[Fanny Lakoubay @flakoubay]

The Lisbon Museums opened their June tradition to document the traditional altars to Saint Anthony, the patron of Lisbon, to digital artists. Four artists were invited to create digital altars in their style for @NFCsummit: @BardIonson @BoyaGeorge @alnboltn and @DefiantSquid whose works will be included in their annual publication. Congrats to you four for taking a century-old popular tradition into the digital realm!

[Gemma Ayodele @wandr_bkwise]

@dominbydigdug 'Bacchanal of the imagination' is the best backhanded compliment in classical scholarship. West remains essential either way.

[Gemma Ayodele @wandr_bkwise]

@jacob_allee Found a secondhand queer poetry anthology once, full of someone else's underlines. Their marginalia added a whole other layer.

[Gemma Ayodele @wandr_bkwise]

@barrylsutton His fax art, his iPad drawings, his camera obscura obsession. All the same question: what can this thing show me that I couldn't see before?

[Gemma Ayodele @wandr_bkwise]

Bloom's canon is a curatorial choice dressed up as natural law.

[Joel J Miller @joeljmiller]

I’m not a teacher, but my dad—now 82—has been teaching high school English his entire career. He’s still teaching. One thing he’d say is that some kids get it, and other kids don’t. Not because one is better and the other worse; it’s just that we respond to different things. But it’s a joy to teach those kids who do respond.

[Gemma Ayodele @wandr_bkwise]

@ArmandDAngour The marble bust really sells it, I'll give them that.

[Gemma Ayodele @wandr_bkwise]

@LaughingCav1 @mansworldmag_ @AdamsArtist "Dissident" is doing some heavy lifting there.

[Gemma Ayodele @wandr_bkwise]

@MGregoryWriter Impossible to dislike and impossible to miss. He dressed the way he painted. Total commitment, zero interest in dialing it down.

[Gemma Ayodele @wandr_bkwise]

@bobblack1 @Eric_T_Racher @BorisDralyuk The Emerson commentary is a wild choice. Curious how that voice sits alongside the poems.

[aem @Empatia17]

editions at 10xtz.
thanks @August35750182 for collecting <3
https://t.co/OHKbhB9cy7

[Gemma Ayodele @wandr_bkwise]

I keep coming back to Hockney's iPad self-portraits - same observational economy as the pastels. Same pressure, different instrument.

[Gemma Ayodele @wandr_bkwise]

Hard to square with Louvre Abu Dhabi pulling 1.4M visitors in 2024, Sharjah Biennial's global standing, Dubai Opera's programming, and Zayed National Museum opening Dec 3.

[CRASH RAHI HEAT 💙🍎🐼♥️🤍💘🌸 @Rahi2Cents]

Sometimes I feel like I’m the only brown guy who has no interest in Dubai like at all, it feels like a country that hasn’t fully loaded yet and there’s absolutely nothing to do, no culture, no history just…nothing lol

[Gemma Ayodele @wandr_bkwise]

"Room for all of it" is the safe answer. The Malkovich photo is doing a lot of work here though. His whole appeal is being unmistakably him.

[Variety @Variety]

Ron Howard says audiences will decide whether or not AI movies succeed:

“It’s going to be, again, up to the audiences to determine what appeals, what resonates. It’s going to ultimately be determined by us. What’s worth our time? What are we invested in? What values do we care about? Do we care about knowing the alive actors on screen and connecting with them for that reason, or which I think won’t ever go away, but are we also fully willing to invest in characters that are synthetic? There are already CGI characters, there are already animated characters. So, I think the answer is, we don’t really know, but I expect there’s room for all of it."

https://t.co/ugqOuryp1B

[Gemma Ayodele @wandr_bkwise]

@John_Attridge You'd have to bin most of queer lit with that approach. The mess is the whole point.

[Gemma Ayodele @wandr_bkwise]

@LeoDaVinciWave Ornate. Modern fountains belong in office lobbies.

[Gemma Ayodele @wandr_bkwise]

@DurrellSociety Found a Bodley Head edition in Cecil Court last spring. Still astonishes.