Our bi-annual magazine will be landing on our members’ doorsteps this week.
The cover of this edition features a beautiful artwork by our Director, Rachel Morley, which depicts the jigsaw of stained-glass fragments inside St Vigor’s, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Somerset.
This week in literary history, Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” is published.
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A new tool allowing artists to check whether their music is potentially being used by AI companies has launched online
A cursory search of AI Watchdog will reveal that 175 songs by #TheFall show up across the four datasets used by AI companies
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If you're in a creative slump, try thinking like a painter.
Today's alternative flowers are Acanthus, in association with #MondayFence
#aofoto
Thanks to Rose Awareness Week for prompting us to post these gorgeous roses from Robert Thornton's 'Temple of Flora', Part III of 'New illustration of the sexual system of Linnaeus' (1799-1807).
You can even buy a print for yourself or the rose lover in your life, here: bit.ly/4eDjeXw
#roses
This Wed at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT, @ctmillion.bsky.social and I are cohosting #TheNoirCollective watch party of THE BIG COMBO (1955). It’s one of my favorites, and I could stare at John Alton’s cinematography forever, so Wed can’t come soon enough. See you then!
Link to watch: archive.org/details/the-...
Henri Matisse, French (1869-1954), Seville Still Life, c 1910-11, oil on canvas, 90 x 117 cm, Hermitage, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Whaaat? So sus.
Good morning, algae fans.
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. In the early 1800s, when people named their cliques, Washington Irving was “sort of a ringleader” of a group of men in Man…
Before the sun rose, while her children slept, Toni Morrison hauled herself from her bed to her desk and began to write. Stephen King wrote at a child’s tiny desk in a trailer. In the basement of P…
