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Arya BiblioBrit 🇬🇧 retweeted
"Everyone has a story about a Birkin bag," writes VF's @MarisaMeltzer.
"In the year since my book 'It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin' came out, I have been stopped on subways, during Zoom calls, and after readings by people who want to tell me about the most famous bag of all time. Two different and entirely unrelated individuals—one a very famous pop star—told me about making sure to bring their Birkins with them when they evacuated their homes during the Los Angeles fires. Objects, especially ones as expensive and sought-after as that bag, can hold a lot of power and meaning. No one knew that more than Jane Birkin, the British-born, Paris-residing actor who was the bag’s namesake and inspiration. The bag had such a life of its own that it was more famous than she was, and she knew that. My biography, which is now in paperback, is an effort to bring the woman and her life into vivid color."
Read an excerpt on how the Birkin bag began: vanityfair.visitlink.me/9gRl…
Arya BiblioBrit 🇬🇧 retweeted
🔥 Super excited to welcome Arturo Tedeschi, a leading voice in computational design, to the jury of CartesianForms: Architecture Reimagined!
🚨 Only 48 hours left to enter at the Early Bird rate! Want to join the competition? 🔗 Tap the link to register: paacademy.com/competitions/c…
Architect, computational designer, author, and educator, Arturo is internationally recognized for his work at the intersection of architecture, computation, and emerging technologies. His perspective will bring valuable insight to the evaluation of proposals that challenge how architecture can adapt and transform over time.
2030 — INHERIT → 2055 — ALTER → 2080 — PASS ON
Architecture Reimagined invites architects, designers, and students worldwide to choose a 50 × 50 m site and explore its evolution across three generations, revealing not only the final outcome, but the experiments, iterations, decisions, and processes behind it.
🏆 $120,000+ in prizes & benefits
🌍 Open worldwide to students + professionals
👥 Enter individually or in teams of up to 5
🐦 Early Bird ends October 20
📅 Final submission: December 13, 2026
Welcome to the jury, Arturo!
#CartesianForms #ArturoTedeschi #ArchitectureReimagined #ComputationalDesign #ArchitectureCompetition
Arya BiblioBrit 🇬🇧 retweeted
Abu Dhabi announced a new cultural district ahead of the emirate's first Frieze fair theartnewspaper.com/2026/10/…
I remember that post and your friends owe you a drink. Grim reading. What consoles me is concrete: new commissions, training pipelines, venues built to last. Someone is keeping these art forms alive.
Many friends thought I was being unduly pessimistic in this post from the end of 22. it gives me no pleasure to say that my pessimism was, if anything, underestimating the awfulness of what is to come.
"in 2022, the message was clear – you’re on your own."
kennethwoods.net/blog1/2023/…
Well, there goes my February budget. Falsettos reunion at the Palladium with the original revival cast, yes please.
Due to popular demand the Falsettos 10th Anniversary Reunion Concert, featuring the original revival cast, will now play the @LondonPalladium for four performances, from 23-25 Feb
He can't spot the AI on Instagram but he's scanned his likeness for eternity anyway. Bold strategy, love it.
Stanley Tucci talks authenticity in the artificial age: “I can’t tell half the time what’s real and what isn’t on Instagram. Someone has to go, ‘Stanley, that’s AI’” vanityfair.com/story/stanley…
Arya BiblioBrit 🇬🇧 retweeted
The Belgrade Theatre in Coventry has informed staff that seven roles are being placed at risk of redundancy, with a formal consultation process now underway. artsprofessional.co.uk/news/…
Absolutely rotten. Another small venue traded for another bloody restaurant. Sharon and Leo deserved so much better than a blindsided eviction. Hope they land on their feet.
A really rotten situation, not least for Sharon and Leo at @KiboProductions.
They worked bloody hard on the Arches Lane project and are lovely & supportive people.
mylondon.news/whats-on/arts-…
Das bunte Leben at $41.8M. Early Kandinsky rarely comes up at auction, so this one I keep coming back to. Add the record Bacon and Riley and I'm tempted to fly over for the next sale.
The London auction house Christie’s brought in $289.4 million over two evening sales on Wednesday, October 14—the 20/21st Century Evening Sale and the “Monsoon,” sale of the collection of Peter Simon. The amount achieved on Wednesday is more than double that of last year’s sales.
artforum.com/news/christies-…
Arya BiblioBrit 🇬🇧 retweeted
“We sculpt space. We write with our bodies in a wordless language that is deeply understood.” —Crystal Pite @KiddPivot
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Arya BiblioBrit 🇬🇧 retweeted
Meet the performers bringing Algarabía to life. Experience an evening of music, dance and poetry in Abu Dhabi on 26 November.
Dramaturgy: Ignacio García and Jihad Mikhael.
Artistic direction: Liuba Cid.
#Algarabia #AbuDhabiFestival #KhawlaArtsAndCulture
Bamboo, plastic drums, solar, rainwater collection. I want to photograph this thing at dusk and then get invited in for dinner. Awwww yeahhhhh.
#ProjectOfTheDay: Floating Bamboo House by H&P Architects
Floating Bamboo House is a flood-adaptive housing model by H&P Architects, designed for Vietnamese communities whose livelihoods depend on rivers. Built from bamboo joined with simple latches and ties, the house floats on plastic drums and uses a large roof to collect rainwater and harness solar energy.
Continue reading: hubs.la/Q04z-M_S0
📍 Hanoi, Vietnam
The sauna one killed me. I long ago stopped treating other people's personal lives as a group project. Let people exist without a discourse attached.
If you are chronically online (and if you are reading this, you probably are), then you’ve likely come across the term queerbaiting before.
In recent years, however, this word has seemingly become a catch-all term for anything that might upset or mislead members of the LGBTQ+ community. These two characters of the same sex keep flirting but never actually hook up? That’s queerbaiting. A straight actor is playing a queer role? Queerbait. There’s a photo of a bunch of guys hanging out together in a sauna? I’m calling the queerbait police.
For all the hand-wringing and discourse generated by the term, it seems clear that queerbaiting, both as a concept and something to be legitimately mad about, has passed its sell-by date. It belonged to Woke 1.0, and VF’s @christress argues it’s best if we leave it there: vanityfair.visitlink.me/qZEP…
Arya BiblioBrit 🇬🇧 retweeted
The application deadline has now been extended to 22 October 2026 for LanD2027, MENA region’s first training programme that combines traditional and advanced digital tools, along with hands-on learning for the holistic documentation of cultural landscapes.
Arya BiblioBrit 🇬🇧 retweeted
First it went slowly. For decades Vera Molnar worked with her machine imaginaire, then with actual computers and plotters, quietly building one of the foundational practices of algorithmic art while major institutions mostly looked the other way. Then it’s happening all at once. As @michaelspalter noted: the canon has shifted. Algorithmic code now stands beside paint and stone.
A watershed moment: Vera Molnar is showing across 4 titans at once—
@GrandPalaisRmn, @newmuseum, West Bund x @centrepompidou, & @V_and_A.
With 2 major books out this Nov, the canon has shifted.
Algorithmic code stands beside paint and stone.
The gates are wide open.
Arya BiblioBrit 🇬🇧 retweeted
Winner of the 2026 Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize announced whatsonstage.com/news/winner…
ALT A photo showing three men on a stage, one holds a certificate
Tichina Arnold as Angelique? Great casting. Adding one last NYC trip to the calendar before they close.
& Juliet has announced that Tichina Arnold will make her Broadway debut as "Angelique," joining the company with James Monroe Iglehart next month.
Corey Mach, Spencer Sutherland, Anthony Gargiula, and Kenzie Ziegler have also extended their runs until the musical's final performances.
Learn more here: bway.world/0pz7w
Arya BiblioBrit 🇬🇧 retweeted
Among the royal guests at the wedding, could the woman next to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert be Jenny Lind and Chopin’s friend Mrs Harriet Grote?
#Chopin #JennyLind #ChopinArt
Below, the 1859 painting “Polonez, Rêve de F. Chopin” shows Teofil Kwiatkowski’s vision of #Chopin & #JennyLind’s wedding in the vaulted #LaMadeleine — planned for ca. 20 Oct. 1849, but aborted days earlier. On the left, VIP guests resemble Queen Victoria, Louis Napoléon and other royals portrayed elsewhere (Lind knew them all).
Two other Kwiatkowski works depict the same scene. And in the 1937 film “Moonlight Sonata”, rich in Chopin–Lind allusions, #Paderewski himself greets the little girl in white:
youtu.be/ZM3sWUAexaM #ChopinArt
Why have the painting itself and this explanation received so little attention?
Arya BiblioBrit 🇬🇧 retweeted
Britten in Love: Robin Tritschler & Malcolm Martineau explore the composer's emotional life through his music at at Oxford International Song Festival. My review:
planethugill.com/2026/10/bri…
