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THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS is out NEXT month!

We’ve been busy organising a book tour that will include talks & signings across the UK, USA, Canada, & Europe. The first will be at the wonderful Oxford University Museum of Natural History on Friday, 10 October 2025. I hope you can join us at one of these events – more details soon.

As urgent and relevant today as it ever was': The radical manifesto hidden in Georges Seurat's 1884 masterpiece

Georges Seurat's once-mocked painting Bathers at Asnières is both an "exquisite distillation of the very essence of summer" and "a modern wonder in the art of seeing".

By Kelly Grovier

https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20250812-seurat-radical-manifesto-bathers-at-asnieres-masterpiece

Baigneurs a Asnières. Bathers at Asnières is an 1884 oil on canvas painting by the French artist Georges Pierre Seurat, the first of his two masterpieces on the monumental scale. The canvas is of a suburban, placid Parisian riverside scene. Isolated figures, with their clothes piled sculpturally on the riverbank, together with trees, austere boundary walls and buildings, and the River Seine are presented in a formal layout. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathers_at_Asni%C3%A8res#/media/File:Baigneurs_a_Asnieres.jpg

8/2 Do you have artwork on your walls? If so, describe one of the pieces.

This is an oil painting I did about 25 years ago. These two cats are Frank and Jesse. My husband named them after the James brothers (then Frank turned out to be a girl). They're staring out the double back doors to the backyard in our old house.

Two dark grey cats with grey collars stare out two green doors out into the night. They sit on a blue and white tiled floor, with red carpet on either side.

Amy Sherald Pulls Smithsonian Show Over Censorship Concerns

The museum reportedly did not want to show the artist's painting of a transgender woman out of fear of provoking the President. The painting is called “Trans Forming Liberty.”

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/amy-sherald-cancels-smithsonian-exhibition-amid-censorship-concerns-1234748194/

2025.07.13 — Do you regularly write reviews of others' work or promote them?

I regularly boost author books, articles, and art on Mastodon, and state as much on my profile. I need to see the post to do so. I prefer posts that include links: I am lazy and presume others are, also; links on your profile are insufficient in my opinion, especially since Mastodon shrinks links so they aren't full length. I don't boost repeated instances that are too close together as I don't want to spam my followers. You can PM me and I'll look for the public post, but nobody has taken me up on that offer, yet.

I will likely end up boosting everybody's self-promo post for July 14, 2025.

If I've read you book or article, I may post about it. When I see nice art by the …

Emily Sargent’s Long-Hidden Watercolors Debut at the Met

John Singer Sargent's sister steps into the spotlight.

In 2022, the heirs of John Singer Sargent made a major donation spread across seven museums in the U.S. and the U.K. These works were not by the famed Gilded Age society portraitist, but his younger sister Emily Sargent—an accomplished artist in her own right, being recognized for the first time.

by Sarah Cascone

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/emily-sargent-exhibition-metropolitan-museum-of-art-2660505