@jimmanson

Journalist. Not writing a novel. #OutOfOfficeArtist. Kent will tear us apart.

 Tunbridge Wells and Brighton
jimmanson.org
Joined August 2009
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Yeah, that should do it. @PrivateEyeNews
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Super excited about writing the Chancellor’s next speech.
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New things.
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Just when things were looking up @maryharristw !
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Situation update @maryharristw. A small act of defiance by the felled tree in the precinct!
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New hang at the museum. A very old one. Done under several influences.
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New hang at the museum.
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Breaking out of the frame.
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New stuff happening.
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New hang at the museum.
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The standfirst had me .... "What Frank Auerbach did for Camden Town, Monet did for Paris and De Chirico did for piazzas all over Italy, Diamond did for New York’s masonry" nytimes.com/2024/04/11/arts/…

In Martha Diamond’s Art, She Took Manhattan (Gift Article)

What Frank Auerbach did for Camden Town, Monet did for Paris and De Chirico did for piazzas all over Italy, Diamond did for New York’s masonry.

nytimes.com
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“There are no longer any certainties about art surviving as the idea of greatness is relativised.” theguardian.com/artanddesign…

Marlborough Gallery to call it quits after nearly 80 years in a fast-evolving art scene

Stately gallery founded in 1946 in the age of high-minded modernism finally had to succumb to a new reality

theguardian.com
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New hang at the museum.
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If you really must have a personalised number plate ….
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Be more Mick Moon, I used to tell myself (in 1978). theguardian.com/artanddesign…

Mick Moon obituary

British painter whose work was admired for its physical depth and beauty, giving it lasting appeal

theguardian.com
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Do Ho Suh: Tracing Time – an extraordinarily beautiful search for home theguardian.com/artanddesign…

Do Ho Suh: Tracing Time review – an extraordinarily beautiful search for home

Is home a building, a place or a feeling, asks the Korean artist in an amazingly varied show of works on paper, film and those you can just drift through…

theguardian.com
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Lovely piece by @Celestemarcus3, and reminder of what a privilege it was to see so many of Chaim Soutine's most glorious paintings in an intimate setting at @_art_on_sea last year. nytimes.com/2024/02/25/opini…

Opinion | When Artists Can’t Go Home, All That’s Left Is Their Art (Published 2024)

Chaim Soutine’s identity was never integral to his art, even as a Jew whose death Nazis caused. Artists in Gaza, Syria and Ukraine share his universality.

nytimes.com
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#whoopsapostrophe. So distressed by this I had to go next door and have my nails crushed.
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Honourable mention for William The Concreter. V. Good. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-6749…

Puns: What's the UK's funniest business name?

You can get a haircut at Barber Streisand and a chip shop dinner from A Fish Called Rhondda.

bbc.co.uk
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THE WORST ARTIST STATEMENTS OF ALL TIME. I wrote this down a while back. I think it was a book idea.
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