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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social

I’ve written about making art when it feels like the world is ending, about living truthfully in a homophobic world, about the Two Roberts in the 1940s. And a lot of it feels very…now.

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social

"The world is burning. Fascism is rising. Countries are falling. And we’re on the brink of incredible technological change, which will either be the end of everything or a new beginning. So, who needs artists?"

I've written about what it takes to make art & live bravely.

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Robert Colquhoun and Bobby MacBryde were once the golden boys of London’s art scene – photographed in Vogue, filmed by Ken Russell and lauded by Francis Bacon. So why did they vanish into obscurity?

‘They had everything, then nothing’: the prodigies the art world forgot

Robert Colquhoun and Bobby MacBryde were once the golden boys of London’s art scene – photographed in Vogue, filmed by Ken Russell and lauded by Francis Bacon. So why did they vanish into obscurity?

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    Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social

    OMGosh but this is brilliant. Much is chiming, on a far quieter, muddier rural homefront, with my marvelous queer farming women, also rather ignored by their Bloomsberry neighbours. And yes, so much of theirs, & the two Roberts’ world, chiming with ours now.

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    @marie-ann.bsky.social

    The cost of art is prohibitive for everyone but the wealthy. So why should we care? I can’t even afford to buy a new piece of art from an unknown artist.

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