#BestMuseumBum: The ripely curvaceous fruit of a recent invitation from curators at The Yorkshire Museum to their colleagues at other antiquarian institutes around the world.
Open Debate
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Cancel culture: If you are “cancelled” but do not wish to be, you must WORK to EARN back people’s respect by owning up to the thing that cancelled you in the first place, LISTENING to others, EDUCATING yourself, and ADVOCATING on behalf of the people that you have offended/harmed
— Phillipa Soo (@Phillipasoo) July 8, 2020
Meanwhile…
Johnny Smugface says cancel culture doesn’t exist. pic.twitter.com/6FAwQdf1RA
— Andrew Lawrence, next show: No clue (@andrewlawrence) July 9, 2020
Damn you, Smugface.
This is probably the most perfectly articulatedthing I’ve read on “cancel culture”.https://t.co/25Qyo01i5h pic.twitter.com/InXzFQJ8lR
— Kieran Devlin (@NoNotThatDevlin) July 9, 2020
Meanwhile…
I’m also keeping a tally of the commentators launching passionate public tirades against “cancel culture” who have tried to menace my job because I support trans rights or speak out about endemic media racism.
Oh dear oh dear!
— Owen Jones 🌹 (@OwenJones84) July 9, 2020
Meanwhile…
Here’s your Pythons on cancel culture.pic.twitter.com/qTtapgIAlq
— Alf Garnett (@FunnyAlfGarnett) July 9, 2020
This morning/afternoon.
Some reaction to yesterday’s open letter from prominent liberals decrying ‘cancel culture’.
Yesterday: Hello, Yes, I’d Like To Cancel My Subscription To Harper’s
Bringing #Ireland‘s History to Life. 🇮🇪 📚
My restored and colourised 1967 photo featuring the unveiling ceremony of the W.B.Yeats Memorial by An Taoiseach Jack Lynch in Stephen’s Green in Dublin City. The bronze sculpture is by artist Henry Moore. #Dublin #Ireland #DeOldify pic.twitter.com/Qw0vFbyAfd— Rob Cross (@RobCross247) July 8, 2020
Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2
The unveiling in 1967 of The WB Yeats Memorial featuring abstract artist Henry Moore‘s Standing Figure: Knife Edge‘ sculpture.
Meanwhile…
Via RTÉ News:
Conservation works to a long-overlooked part of St Stephen’s Green in Dublin are nearing completion.
The €300,000 project on the WB Yeats Memorial began last November.
Commissioned and managed by the Office of Public Works, the project has taken in the conservation of Henry Moore’s iconic ‘Knife Edge’ sculpture, as well as the restoration of surrounding paths, steps and terraces.
“The whole plaza was overgrown and the sculpture was very much hidden. So you couldn’t really see that there was even a Henry Moore in this part of the park. A lot of people never knew it was here,” said conservator Jason Ellis (top).
This morning.
Connaught House, Burlington Road, Dublin 2.
A group from The Workers’ Party protest outside the grounds of M & B Conversions, an Israeli state-owned aeronautic/military equipment company, in protest at what they claim is the proposed unilateral annexation of the West Bank.
Last night.
Bray, County Wicklow.
Drug Squad officers seized a ‘growhouse’ situated in the attic of a normal-looking residential home flagrantly cultivating ‘illegal plants’.
The streets of Bray are a little bit safer this morning.
Thanks, Guards.
“10 of the 14 mother and baby homes were run by Catholic orders. In this film we investigate evidence that between 4,000-6,000 babies and infants died in their care.”
Journalist Laurence Lee.
‘Ireland’s Mother And Baby Scandal’.
A short but excellent documentary broadcast on AlJazeera last night exploring the scandal of Tuam and beyond.
Thanks Bebe
An increasingly chilling time-lapse visualisation of every COVID-19 death worldwide from January to June 2020 (Inspired by Isao Hashimoto’s “A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945”) created by James Beckwith, who admits a follow up may be necessary. To wit:
Each country is represented by a tone and an expanding blip on the map when a death from Covid-19 is recorded. Each day is 4 seconds long, and at the top of the screen is the date and a counter showing the total numbers of deaths. Every country that has had a fatality is included.
Needless to say, the cacophony builds relentlessly.
