I worked in Bradford as an archaeologist in the 1990 & I remember seeing a huge Hockney art work at Salts Mill that he had faxed to the city one A4 page at a time. It seemed so revolutionary then & in a way it still does www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
With UK universities slashing budgets and doing redundancies left and right, I am really worried about the survival of many of the digital projects that were funded in the past decade or so, many of which were already a miracle that they were being maintained after all this time.
A few of the placards seen today as the fash got chased off Buchanan Street.
Never forget: the far right are indeed dangerous and wicked; and they are also weird and pathetic, and we should say so.
Love rules. Love laughs. Love marches. Love is the wolf that guards the gate…
—Edwin Morgan, “Love”
published in A BOOK OF LIVES, @carcanet.bsky.social 2011
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Yorkshire, indeed the world, has lost some of its colour today.
Garrowby Hill, a Yorkshire landscape by David Hockney, 1998.
So long, David.
🚨Upcoming Suffragette Stall alert – 17 June!
Right now, we just can’t get enough of our Suffragette Stall- so we’re taking it over to WestFest
On Wednesday 17th June, 10am-3pm, we’ll be at Cottier’s Theatre for A Celebration of Glasgow: History, Heritage & Traditional Skills.
💥 Govan Book Festival 💥
📚 Treasures of the Vikings book launch, 4:30pm, Sat 13th June
🗣 Interview-style chat with Dr Tom Horne, followed by a Q&A and signing!
🎼 Clamour of Rooks will luteing leading up to the chat
⛏️ Govan Heritage Trust will be digging in our 1,500-year-old kirkyard beforehand
Definitely agree. The left hand often doesn't know what the right hand is doing. It's just another failure of governance and accountability in HE.
Hockney Faxes Artwork: David Hockney's fax art has gone international.
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That's appalling. I'm so sorry. Also, it seems down right dishonest for the university to submit case studies on modules it is intending to abolish.