GILDED BIRDS – Snapshots of Beauty

Jess Feury, textile artist, on a piece of Ottoman era fabric.
GB Tell me why you chose this fabric.
JF I chose it because nothing I see in the world ever seems to compare to a an antique find in a flea market, especially when it’s a textile that involves old burnished metal. A lot of old Turkish textiles feel a little more refined and these particular...

Dr Michael Tanner (15th April 1935 – 3rd April 2024), philosopher, opera critic, life fellow of Corpus Christi, Cambridge.
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Richard Bourke, Professor of the History of Political Thought, on Sidney Nolan’s painting, Return to Glenrowan, 1946.
GB Tell me why you chose this.
RB In the first instance, because my grandmother had a Sidney Nolan print. In my grandparent’s house there was a large Ned Kelly print, a very rudimentary, rather cubist version of a Ned Kelly with just the helmet and the boot perched on a fence. I’ve...

Bianca Bosker’s deep dive into art world is shocking, hilarious and also a discovery of beauty itself.
Like Gilded Birds, she talks to artists, curators and neuroscientists – but not strictly about beauty, about how to develop a good eye for art. She cuts through the layers of jargon and gets right into the heart of the machinations of the contemporary...