John-Paul Stonard
@johnpaulstonard.com
Writer
New book: THE WORST EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD, DEGENERATE ART, 1937, out now 🚀
New book: THE WORST EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD, DEGENERATE ART, 1937, out now 🚀
More prints from that film found at the back of a drawer.
September 16, 2026 at 6:30 PM
More prints from that film found at the back of a drawer.
Developed a roll of film found at the back of a drawer and have no recollection of taking this one.
September 11, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Developed a roll of film found at the back of a drawer and have no recollection of taking this one.
The Adventures of Harold
Some telling details from La Tapisserie de Bayeux
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September 8, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Hating the Bauhaus
On the Alternative for Germany attack on modernity.
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September 6, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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What nobody is saying about the Bayeux Tapestry…
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September 2, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Hans Memling's painting of four cranes in the National Gallery, holding a stone aloft so they do not sleep, reminding of the two cranes outside my window in Camden doing pretty much the same thing.
August 21, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Hans Memling's painting of four cranes in the National Gallery, holding a stone aloft so they do not sleep, reminding of the two cranes outside my window in Camden doing pretty much the same thing.
How to draw a wildfire, and our last card to play: uncertainty.
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How to draw a wildfire
THE DUNWICH HEATH WILDFIRE seems to have inaugurated a new era of climate-change wildfires in Britain.
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August 14, 2026 at 6:51 PM
How to draw a wildfire, and our last card to play: uncertainty.
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On tonight's BBC Front Row: @johnpaulstonard.com and Suzi Feay review the new Irvine Welsh novel set in Vegas; Glenn Close in The Summer Book and the art of Richard Dadd. R4 715 or link after 🎧📻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
August 6, 2026 at 4:55 PM
On tonight's BBC Front Row: @johnpaulstonard.com and Suzi Feay review the new Irvine Welsh novel set in Vegas; Glenn Close in The Summer Book and the art of Richard Dadd. R4 715 or link after 🎧📻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Has a literary review ever before become news? BBC News reports on excellent piece by @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social in the @lrb.co.uk
July 28, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Has a literary review ever before become news? BBC News reports on excellent piece by @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social in the @lrb.co.uk
This is good
‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.”
But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’
New, by Emily Wilson
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But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’
New, by Emily Wilson
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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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July 27, 2026 at 10:21 PM
This is good
El Niño, what a misnomer.
The El Niño climate pattern that is strengthening in the Pacific Ocean is on track to be the largest one in at least 150 years, researchers said today at a briefing.
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go.nature.com/4fkayak
This El Niño is set to be the largest on record by a ‘mind-blowing margin’
Forecasters predict that the monster climate pattern will combine with global warming to push global temperatures in 2027 to new heights.
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July 23, 2026 at 6:43 PM
El Niño, what a misnomer.
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On the AfD attack on the Bauhaus in Germany, and why we should take note.
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Hating the Bauhaus
On the Alternative for Germany attack on modernity.
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June 28, 2026 at 6:20 PM
On the AfD attack on the Bauhaus in Germany, and why we should take note.
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As #Bayeux arrives in Britain — thoroughly irresponsible from a conservation point of view, but I rather like that.
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The Mexican Performance
On the Bayeux Tapestry and a curious link with John Constable
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July 10, 2026 at 11:54 AM
As #Bayeux arrives in Britain — thoroughly irresponsible from a conservation point of view, but I rather like that.
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Mrs Nichols has brought a packed lunch.
July 7, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Mrs Nichols has brought a packed lunch.
This is the future, and the final line is the most important one of all from @mayor.nyc.gov
July 4, 2026 at 11:57 AM
This is the future, and the final line is the most important one of all from @mayor.nyc.gov
This is excellent, by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 via the sculpture of Virgil Ortiz and museums of New Mexico.
Most of what is now America was not so in 1776.
What are the good fictional accounts of the Pueblo Revolt?
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Most of what is now America was not so in 1776.
What are the good fictional accounts of the Pueblo Revolt?
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Rebecca Solnit · Before 1776
In 1848, the US seized the northern half of Mexico, from California to New Mexico, and imposed American law and the...
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July 4, 2026 at 11:53 AM
This is excellent, by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 via the sculpture of Virgil Ortiz and museums of New Mexico.
Most of what is now America was not so in 1776.
What are the good fictional accounts of the Pueblo Revolt?
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Most of what is now America was not so in 1776.
What are the good fictional accounts of the Pueblo Revolt?
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Same to you, you're a gent. I get zero engagement on here so this counts as a lot for me, thank you.
July 1, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Same to you, you're a gent. I get zero engagement on here so this counts as a lot for me, thank you.
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‘They are portraits of a marriage, but also images of a body approaching the extremes of old age. Flesh folds around a thickened abdomen; limbs are attenuated. Ankles become brittle.’
@johnpaulstonard.com on Georg Baselitz’s portraits of his wife.
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@johnpaulstonard.com on Georg Baselitz’s portraits of his wife.
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John-Paul Stonard · At the Fondazione Giorgio Cini: On Georg Baselitz
Baselitz did not make overtly political art. He felt that what mattered in painting existed on a deeper level than...
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July 1, 2026 at 10:05 AM
‘They are portraits of a marriage, but also images of a body approaching the extremes of old age. Flesh folds around a thickened abdomen; limbs are attenuated. Ankles become brittle.’
@johnpaulstonard.com on Georg Baselitz’s portraits of his wife.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@johnpaulstonard.com on Georg Baselitz’s portraits of his wife.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
This is good, writing writing on art, unusual.
‘Marilyn Monroe’s image, after Warhol, is still encoded with a vulnerability we instantly recognise, which makes us want to save her or explain her all over again. The real Marilyn has been dust for a long time, but her image has only grown stronger.’
Andrew O’Hagan:
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Andrew O’Hagan:
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Andrew O’Hagan · At the NPG: Portraits of Marilyn
Marilyn Monroe’s image, after Warhol, is still encoded with a vulnerability we instantly recognise, which makes us...
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June 30, 2026 at 12:49 PM
This is good, writing writing on art, unusual.
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‘The scumbles of colour are more like floating fig leaves, a form of protection: the rose, cobalt and sienna daubs compensate for the thinness of the aged bodies, giving them back some life, like fruit growing on an old tree.’
@johnpaulstonard.com on Georg Baselitz.
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@johnpaulstonard.com on Georg Baselitz.
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John-Paul Stonard · At the Fondazione Giorgio Cini: On Georg Baselitz
Baselitz did not make overtly political art. He felt that what mattered in painting existed on a deeper level than...
www.lrb.co.uk
June 28, 2026 at 7:40 AM
‘The scumbles of colour are more like floating fig leaves, a form of protection: the rose, cobalt and sienna daubs compensate for the thinness of the aged bodies, giving them back some life, like fruit growing on an old tree.’
@johnpaulstonard.com on Georg Baselitz.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@johnpaulstonard.com on Georg Baselitz.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
On the AfD attack on the Bauhaus in Germany, and why we should take note.
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open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...
Hating the Bauhaus
On the Alternative for Germany attack on modernity.
open.substack.com
June 28, 2026 at 6:20 PM
On the AfD attack on the Bauhaus in Germany, and why we should take note.
open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...
open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...
First five pages pretty much everything you want from a book and a secondhand bookshop find.
June 27, 2026 at 12:44 PM
First five pages pretty much everything you want from a book and a secondhand bookshop find.
S3:E6 Entartete Kunst, Munich, 1937
Shows that Go On · Episode
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June 23, 2026 at 8:10 PM