The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com The best art publication on Bluesky 🌞 with daily art news and reviews. hyperallergic.com
Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social Artist; have written, and curated, also. Head of Programme, Writing MA, at the RCA, London.
jeremymillar.org
Profile: https://jeremymillar.org/Notes-on-Gesture-for-H-C-2015
Header: https://jeremymillar.org/Neutral-Diluted-2007
Alice Strang @alicestrangart.bsky.social Modern & Contemporary Art Specialist & Art Historian
A Saltire Society Outstanding Woman of Scotland
Photo by Alex Robson
www.alicestrang.co.uk
Please find me on instagram @alice.strang.art
Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social All-around genius working for peace, beauty, and intelligent thought.
IRL: professor of art history. Occasionally write things about Rubens. Also Dutch art, the Bruegel family, and Elizabethan visual culture.
Reader of many novels. DC & Amsterdam.
artnau @artnau.bsky.social art
https://www.instagram.com/artnau/
Chloë Ashby @chloeashby.bsky.social Author of FAMILY FRIENDS (coming July), SECOND SELF and WET PAINT. Words on art, books and culture in the Times, Guardian, Spectator, TLS et al.
Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social Humanities, history of art, architecture & landscape; museums, libraries & collections
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social Freelance cricket commentator largely to be found on TMS and general grifter. The least capable co host on @zeroduckspod Will work, not very hard, for money and/or fine wine.
Catherine Hickley @catherinehickley.bsky.social Editor for museums & heritage at The Art Newspaper. Arts writer, often for The New York Times. Author of The Munich Art Hoard: Hitler's Dealer and his Secret Legacy. Berlinerin.
Jacqueline Riding @jacriding.bsky.social Film/TV historian; Art Newspaper Lit Ed; Heritage/Exhibition/Curatorial Consultant; Author #Jacobites #Peterloo #Hogarth SundayTimes ArtBook 2021 #HardStreets + Gainsborough & Reynolds: The Art of Rivalry in Georgian London 2027 https://linktr.ee/JacRiding
Ben Luke @benlukeart.bsky.social Art historian, critic, broadcaster
Podcasts: A brush with…, The Week in Art
Criticism: The Art Newspaper, The Nerve
Book: What is art for? (HENI, 2025)
Kathryn Havelock @kathrynhavelock.bsky.social Marketing & Comms Specialist @ Pallant House
ex V&A, IWM, British Museum, Design Museum, Wallace Collection
Trustee at Collections Trust & Estorick Collection
Studying art history at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social
Alison Young @youngalison.bsky.social Ran way from the law to join the music hall. Now often to be found running around with a clipboard organising events & the archive for the British Music Hall Society. Would rather be researching & writing…
My blog: https://musichallalice.wordpress.com
Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social Philip McCouat writes in-depth articles on art, history and social change in the Journal of Art in Society at http://artinsociety.com
Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
Edouard Vuillard @evuillard.bsky.social Fan account of Edouard Vuillard, a French painter and printmaker associated with the Nabis.
1868-1940
Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social Most recent books: IN THE RHODODENDRONS: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf, PAPER CROWN: Poems
https://linktr.ee/heatherchristle
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Yale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social Books et Veritas. Bringing truth to light for more than one hundred years.
Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social Professor of Art History, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center. I look at things and then write about them.
Author of Van Gogh and the End of Nature, from Yale University Press: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300274363/van-g
La Tribune de l’Art @ltdla.bsky.social Histoire de l’art et patrimoine (aussi liberté de la presse et écologie). Fil tenu par Didier Rykner. https://www.latribunedelart.com
alifeinbooks @alifeinbooks.bsky.social Mainly books but also travel and art, viewing rather than creating
I blog at http://alifeinbooks.co.uk and live in beautiful Bath, UK.
Edouard Manet @edouardmanet.bsky.social Fan account of Edouard Manet, a French painter and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
1832-1883
Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social Focusing on Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group. Read more at https://bloggingwoolf.org/
Musée de l'Orangerie @museeorangerie.bsky.social 🔸 30 sept 2026 — 25 janv 2027 : Exposition "Monet, peindre le temps" 🔸 30 sept 2026 — 15 fév 2027 : Contrepoint contemporain de Vija Celmins
Swann Galleries @swanngalleries.bsky.social NYC auction house offering Books, Autographs, Maps, Photographs, Prints & Drawings, Posters, African-American Fine Art, Illustration Art & more.
The Art Newspaper France @tanfrance.bsky.social La référence du monde de l'art en français
Artforum @artforum.com Defining the world of contemporary art since 1962.
https://www.artforum.com/
Long Victorian @longvictorian.bsky.social I have a blog, and you are more than welcome to pop along. Mostly about books and art (1789-1914). Working on voiceovers. (All human, me!) https://longvictorian.com
Andrew Shore @andrewshore.bsky.social Director of Content at Art UK.
Love all kinds of music, books etc. Used to work at the British Museum.
https://artuk.org/discover/profile/andrew-shore
Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social Prof. of art/fashion history @ FIT & Editor of *Fashion in European Art* & of the Fashion History Timeline. *The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris* (@artofparisianchic.bsky.social), Bloomsbury Visual Arts in 2025.
@cmillerartlife.bsky.social @cmillerartlife.bsky.social http://cmillerartlife.blogspot.com
http://instagram.com/cmillerartlife/ Artists celebrated daily
Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, a must-visit for art lovers, showcasing over 8,000 works of art, including masterpieces by Rembrandt & Vermeer. ❤️
This is the official account of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
www.rijksmuseum.nl
Josh Babarinde OBE MP @joshbabarinde.bsky.social ☀️Proud MP for #Eastbourne 🚀@ForbesUnder30 Entrepreneur 👮🏾♂️Ex-youth justice worker
🏄🏾♂️SUP-er 🔶 josh4president.co.uk
@eastlondongroup.bsky.social @eastlondongroup.bsky.social The art of the East London Group. Also on Instagram:- http://instagram.com/eastlondongroup/ & Facebook http://facebook.com/EastLondonGroup. All images: copyrighted. Find out more about the Group here:- https://www.eastlondongroup.co.uk/
Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social a home of brilliant writing from across the decades and around the world (follow @dauntbooks.bsky.social for all things Daunt Books *shops*)
Prof. Francesca Berry (she/her) @francescaberry.bsky.social Art Historian| Professor of French Art History| author of Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity (2025)| MY VIEWS| Arsenal ♥️🤍
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/historyofart/berry-francesca
Bruce Boucher @bruceboucher.bsky.social Flâneur and former Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
National Gallery of Ireland @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social One of Ireland’s top visitor attractions housing the nation’s collection of European and Irish art. Enjoy, learn and be inspired. #NationalGalleryIRL
Dulwich Picture Gallery @dulwichgallery.bsky.social Exhibitions | Collection | Events | Shop | Café | Gardens
The UK's first public gallery founded in 1817.
https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/
Historians of British Art @hba-caa.bsky.social An affiliate society of the College Art Association (CAA) in North America, HBA promotes scholarship and other professional endeavors related to British art and architecture, broadly conceived in terms of place and time.
Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social Yale University Press in London https://yalebooks.co.uk/
Publishing books that champion arts & humanities 🏰 home of history!
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Alex Preston @alexpreston.bsky.social Novelist: Winchelsea, In Love and War, This Bleeding City. Words in Observer, FT and Harper’s.
Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social Political columnist, The Guardian
Author, Politics, A Survivor's Guide
Website: https://rafaelbehr.com/
Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social @spectator lit ed. “Clock-white, still friendly to the earth.” https://bit.ly/TheHauntedWood
The TLS @thetls.bsky.social The Times Literary Supplement. Subscribe here: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/buy
Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social This iconic 1934 apartment block was once home to emigré Bauhaus masters, Agatha Christie, Soviet spies, and more. Open from March to the end of November, 11 am - 4 pm, Saturdays and Sundays, and on the last Friday of each month. https://isokongallery.org/
Dr Alexandra Loske @colourwoman.bsky.social Curator of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Colour historian and writer.
German/British. Views my own.
Caroline Arscott @carscott.bsky.social Art historian, Courtauld Emeritus Professor. Victorian art. Botany, physiology, physics, communications technology and Victorian aesthetics. Whistler, Poynter, Moore, Burne-Jones and William Morris.
ECR French Nineteenth-Century Art Network @ecrfrenchart.bsky.social An early career research network for recent and current doctoral graduates/researchers in French Art at the long nineteenth century. For news, our latest events, and opportunities for ECR's find us on www.ecrfrenchart.com
Dr James Finch @jamesfinch64.bsky.social Senior Curator (Collections) at the Royal Academy of Arts and c19/20 art historian. Posts mostly relating to the RA and its collections. 🖼📚🎨
Charles Darwent @chasd2.bsky.social Last book: Monsieur Ozenfant’s Academy (Art Publishing, Inc., July 2025)
Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social Art historian, curator, editor.
Currently author/project editor Patrick Heron catalogue raisonné. Also writing about Gustav Metzger, Yoko Ono and others. Weeding, pruning, mowing, Cymru.
https://britishartnetwork.org.uk/membership/members/andrew-wilson/
Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social Historian of art & ideas, Cambridge
FSA FRHistS. Sometimes on the radio.
📕 The Story of Tudor Art out now
views own 🥦👻🎻
https://www.christinajfaraday.com/
British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social Research network for literary & cultural modernisms | info@bams.ac.uk | Join http://bams.ac.uk/join-bams | The Modernist Review tmr@bams.ac.uk I #ModWrite
Matilda Webb @alfredwallis.bsky.social Author of the new, in-depth biography of self-taught St Ives artist Alfred Wallis - www.alfredwallis.co.uk
Lucy Whelan @lucywhelan.bsky.social Art historian of modern France | gender, subjectivity, environments | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc at Sciences Po, Paris
📘 Pierre Bonnard Beyond Vision, https://shorturl.at/mvQB0
📍Durham, UK
gregorg @greg.org Artist, writer, publisher of greg dot org: the making of since 2001, "a [Cady] Noland obsessive" —T Mag [avatar: Édouard Manet Facsimile Object (M1), Minnay; banner: Derek Jarman's Blue]
The International T. S. Eliot Society @intleliotsociety.bsky.social Founded in 1980, the International T. S. Eliot Society is an association of persons around the world who are interested in the art and thought of T. S. Eliot.
Join us: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/tseliotsociety/
Peter Forbes @heliconiuscydno.bsky.social
Irina von Wiese @irinavonwiese.bsky.social Former MEP, current Councillor in the London Borough of Southwark, Liberal Democrat, Academic and European. FUX.
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com Writer
New book: THE WORST EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD, DEGENERATE ART, 1937, out now 🚀
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social The magazine for people who love books | We also publish limited-edition memoirs & biographies and produce a well-loved literary podcast.
foxedquarterly.com
The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social Enjoy The Observer journalism in print every Sunday, and digitally, seven days a week 🗞️
Subscribe now at Observer.co.uk/subscribe
Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social Giving new life to old books since 2015. Bookshop.org Indie Champion. Find us: backlisted.fm, Apple Podcasts, Spotify. Support us: patreon.com/backlisted.
Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com Indie bookshop in Paris📚Online store ships to the world 🌎 Listen to our podcast here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-company 🎧
Museo Reina Sofía @museoreinasofia.es Un museo abierto a la participación, el diálogo y la reflexión
www.museoreinasofia.es
Museo del Prado @museodelprado.es Bienvenidos a la cuenta oficial del Museo Nacional del Prado en Bluesky. Abrimos una nueva ventana para compartir con quienes aman el arte nuestras colecciones, historias y el día a día del museo
https://www.museodelprado.es/
Centre Pompidou @centrepompidou.fr La plus grande collection d’art moderne et contemporain d'Europe, maintenant partout en France et dans le monde ✨
Retrouvez tous nos événements sur centrepompidou.fr !
Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social Callipygian statues 👍🏛🍑
'Cheeky, Witty, Funny' - The Bookseller;
'Crude' - Daily Express 🤣
(curated by @thehistoryboy.bsky.social & @jackshoulder.bsky.social)
Buy our book here:
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Leeds University Library Galleries @lulgalleries.bsky.social Highlights from Cultural Collections & Galleries @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Free and open to all. Visit us at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Treasures of the Brotherton, and Brotherton Research Centre.
bit.ly/LULGWebsite
University of Reading Special Collections @uorspeccoll.bsky.social Sharing treasures from our Special Collections, Rare Books and Archives.
Website: https://collections.reading.ac.uk/special-collections/
Enquiries: specialcollections@reading.ac.uk
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/unirdg_collections
University of Cambridge Museums @camunivmuseums.bsky.social Eight University of Cambridge Museums & the Botanic Garden | Five million marvellous objects to discover | Come on in! museums.cam.ac.uk
@leedsmuseums.bsky.social @leedsmuseums.bsky.social
University of Reading Art Collection @unirdg-artcol.bsky.social ♦️ Sharing Art Collections held at the University of Reading
https://linktr.ee/uorartcollection
Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social Bringing people together through art. Based in Los Angeles, working globally.
getty.edu
Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12.
Website: lewisgoodall.com
Email: lewis.goodall@global.com
Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social London depicted by artists past and present.
“By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.” Samuel Johnson.
Curated by @jamadden.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/paintingsoflondon
JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social Book lover, film lover, art lover, wine lover. I write about books at JacquiWine's Journal. https://linktr.ee/jacquiwine
James MacCleary MP @jamesmaccleary.bsky.social Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes, Seaford, Newhaven, Polegate, Willingdon, Stone Cross and beautiful Sussex villages. Defence Spokesperson.
Published and promoted by Lewes Lib Dems on behalf of J. MacCleary (Liberal Democrat) at 54 Cliffe High Street, Lewes
Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social Art Historian/Lecturer at University of St Andrews. 19th & 20th century British Art, Music Hall, and Theatre. Occasional folkie / concertina player. Instagram: roughs_drafts
Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social Celebrating women artists, past & present. Visit http://artherstory.net! Instagram, artherstorynotes. Online store at https://artherstory.net/shop/
The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social Read: TheNewWorld.co.uk
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk Leader of @LibDems.org.uk, husband, father, carer, and MP for Kingston & Surbiton.
Promoted by Liberal Democrats, 66 Buckingham Gate, SW1E 6AU.
Lund Humphries @lhartbooks.bsky.social Publishers on Art, Architecture and Design since 1939.
www.lundhumphries.com
Benton End @bentonend.bsky.social Former home, garden and art school of Sir Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines. On a mission to become a place of learning, creativity and experimentation once more.
gardenmuseum.org.uk/bentonend
Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social Connecting you to art 🖼 Art UK is an art education charity and digital space that connects everyone with the UK's public art collection.
Take part in the #OnlineArtExchange every Thursday!
https://artuk.org/
https://linktr.ee/artukdotorg
Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social ‘The view from the column is ever distant’
Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics … love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump
The Art Exhibitions Blog @blogexhibitions.bsky.social A blog about art exhibitions around Britain and Europe written by Eddie Buckle and Lydia Lancaster. Read it at https://art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/
John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social Political sketch-writer for the Guardian. Author. Latest book out now 'Taking the Lead: A Dog at Number 10'.
The Wyndham Lewis Society @lewisian.bsky.social Society dedicated to promoting knowledge of the art and literature of the protean modernist satirist, Wyndham Lewis
"We only want Tragedy if it can clench its side muscles like hands on its belly, and bring to the surface a laugh like a bomb." BLAST, 1914
JANUSZCZAK @januszczak.bsky.social I’m the Polish art critic of The Sunday Times whose name nobody can pronounce. Unless they’re Polish too. I also make loads of films about art. My favourite artists are 1/Michelangelo 2/Manet 3/Pontormo 4/Lynette Yiadom-Boakye 5/Reading FC
Laura Cumming @lauracummingart.bsky.social Art Critic The Observer. Critic of the Year 2024. Thunderclap - Book of 2024, @SaltireBook, Non-Fiction Winner @WritersPrize. On Chapel Sands, The Vanishing Man @ChattoBooks. Rep @pew_literary
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, New World, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Londoner. *Not* an American.