Alex Burchmore
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Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorial Studies, Australian National University; author of New Export China (University of California Press, 2023) and Material Selves (Bloomsbury, 2024); scholar of things and people in motion
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Wee carved bakelite doggo, excavated from a late 19th-early 20th century boarding house associated with a toheroa (Paphies ventricosa, shellfish) cannery, Whangaroa.
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Slightly chilly train journey today would be beautifully enhanced if I were wearing a late c18th cosy red wool cloak, quilted petticoats and a hand warming muff. Sadly I am not so sensibly clothed so will have to make do with train coffee @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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Apparently AI researchers are taking up smoking to signal their faith in the technology snd its power, which will help us ‘discover’ a cure for cancer. Oh boy, are these guys in for a bad surprise!
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‘The Tailor’ c 1570, by Giovanni Battista Moroni (1520-1578), Italian Mannerist painter of restrained, subtle portraits with silvery tonality, inspired by Titian & Lotto. The portrait, originally owned by the Venetian Grimani family, is probably of a woollen cloth merchant. National Gallery London
Show PostProposal for a cenotaph for 'esprit sublime' Sir Isaac Newton, by Étienne-Louis Boullée, visionary Neoclassical French architect, pioneer of ‘architecture parlante’; died in 1799. Bibliothèque nationale de France
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