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💚 💫 So excited to share the true stories of the inspiring individuals behind art history's masterpieces in my first book, MUSE! 💫 💚 waterstones.com/book/muse/ruth…
Ruth Millington
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Ruth Millington
@ruth_millington
Art with history▪️Author: MUSE @vintagebooks, This Book Will Make You An Artist @NosyCrow, The Science of Art @dkbooks▪️Rep'd @pfdagents @da_childrens
- For years ‘Honeysuckle’ (1883) was assumed to have been designed by William Morris. However, the bestseller was by his daughter, May Morris. An embroiderer, designer, jeweller + activist, she was a leading member of the Arts + Crafts Movement, teaching at Birmingham School of Art
- A university is not a recruitment agency! And education does not exist to simply serve the economy. The value of an arts degree doesn't lie in a graduate's salary but in their ability to write, create, curate, argue and think critically - in this case about troubling policies
- For years ‘Honeysuckle’ (1883) was assumed to have been designed by William Morris. BUT this bestseller was by his daughter, May Morris, #BOTD 1862. An embroiderer, designer, jeweller, socialist and activist, she founded the Women's Guild of Arts and taught @margaretstreet 💫
- This is a great stunt by Netflix. To promote Enola Holmes (starring Millie Bobby Brown as the sister of Sherlock Holmes) they have installed statues of historical women across the UK besides brothers who have overshadowed them. Princess Helena Victoria faces King Edward VII 💪Princess Helena Augusta Victoria has arrived in Birmingham! What a brilliant tribute to this founding member of @BritishRedCross ❤️
- I couldn't leave Edinburgh without meeting the gaze of Lady Agnew @NatGalleriesSco
- Spoken by someone who hasn't lived in Birmingham, surrounded by inspiring street art, with access to 30+ museums/galleries, 10 theatres, Symphony Hall, 50 festivals a year + one of the best Shakespeare libraries in the world. There's a reason why I moved from London to Brum 🖤
- How disappointing and unfair. Latin, like art history or music, should be available to all students at all schools, not just the privately educated. Why lower aspirations and impoverish the curriculum? Classics, with its languages, history, myths and art, opens a whole new worldExclusive: Thousands of secondary pupils face 'significant disruption' after the government scrapped its state school Latin programme mid-year buff.ly/4fr1XPV
- And that's a wrap! The story of Birmingham's Surrealists will be coming to R4 soon...with the very best bits told by Stewart Lee 💫
- New Turner £20 note enters circulation today! This is the painting it features, on show @NationalGallery
- Take a serious A Level, not Art, they said. Art History isn't a proper degree. You'll never make a real career in the arts. Good thing I ignored that bad advice. Follow your heart + it'll lead you to great places! 🖤
- I am thrilled to share the news that @amberleybooks are publishing my book on Birmingham's story of art! It will be out in June 2022, just in time for @birminghamcg22 ✨
