Journalist, Art Fund writer and therapist in training. Formerly arts desk at The Independent on Sunday and Evening Standard 🏳️🌈
London and Devon, UK
Joined May 2010
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I guess you took everything of value out. Chattels are what people want to pay for them
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Thrilled I WANNA BE LOVED BY YOU - my new biography of Marilyn Monroe - is book of the week in the Times!
Thanks @simonschusterUK @timesculture @thetimes
#marilyn #marilynmonroe
Enjoy this article for free.
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My piece in @ST_Culture today about my new biog of Marilyn. @DrMatthewSweet gets a mention too. Thanks @simonschusterUK @susannahbutter
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The first copy of my new Marilyn biography has landed - thanks @simonschusterUK ! You can pre order in the UK here : is.gd/O8sOjQ
#MarilynMonroe #marilyn
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Happy Birthday Patricia Highsmith! Here’s a wonderful podcast I’ve just recorded with @RobertMurphyTV ! @BloomsburyBooks #patriciahighsmith
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There’s a new play about #AlexanderMcQueen opening in NY. As the first biographer of McQueen - a book written with the cooperation of his family - I’m looking forward to seeing it. Check it out @AmazonUK:
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I’m so thrilled to be a recipient of this @Soc_of_Authors scholarship which will allow me to travel to India and Spain this year and to write about my trips. I’m looking forward to the ceremony later today @Southwarkcathed
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Loved this chat about biscuits on @BBCWorldatOne today with @lizziecollingh1 My favourite is a plain digestive too 😂
Fancy a biscuit? 🍪
As McVitie's celebrate the 100-year anniversary of their famous chocolate digestive, author Lizzie Collingham talks about how biscuits became an integral part of British snack culture.
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Great to see this cool little biro sketch of Andy Warhol (1970) by Alice Neel @victoriamiro signed ‘with love Alice’
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Thinking about the creative genius of Sylvia Plath and Alexander McQueen who both died on this day - Sylvia in 1963 and Lee in 2010
Raphael’s sketch of Michelangelo’s David from behind, 1505-10, on show @royalacademy. It’s so great to think of Raphael, aged about 22, looking at this new sculpture in Florence by 30 year-old M and thinking wow I want to draw that. A visual record and way of learning.
Luminous Veronese, c1560. This touching scene stopped me in my tracks at the Ashmolean on Saturday. @AshmoleanMuseum
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The two volumes of Some Men in London are such important books for queer history. But there’s lots that’s very moving as well as laugh-out-loud fun in them too (Kenneth Williams!). Thanks for your tireless work @PParkerWriting and for a brilliant event with @NeilVBartlett
Brilliant event last night @britishlibrary with @PParkerWriting and @NeilVBartlett
discussing Vol. 2 of Peter’s important new anthology - and here’s more reading ! @gaystheword gaystheword.co.uk/somemeninl…
Seafront ramble in Paignton today to the Redcliffe, built as a house in the 1850s and once owned by sewing machine heir Paris Singer. Now a crumbling hotel
Hazlitt ❤️
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”
William Hazlitt, died 18 September 1830
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This 1951 picture of miner Ben James by Robert Frank is one a remarkable new collection of photos of the Welsh coalfield acquired by @AmgueddfaCymru, supported by @artfund. I enjoyed talking to curator Bronwen Colquhoun about the project for the new edition of Art Quarterly
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In 1994 Edwina Currie introduced a motion in parliament to equal the age of consent for gay men. Tony Blair spoke passionately in support. The motion was defeated (!) but I remember listening to the debate and feeling good changes were coming telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09…
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Pleased to hear today that this 12th-century English carving of the Deposition from the Cross has been saved for the nation by the V&A with @artfund support. Incredible survival of pre-Reformation English religious art
