Lou Stoppard
@LouStoppard
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I'm a writer and curator. I’ve written for @nytimes @newyorker @FT @aperture Agent: Emma Paterson at @aitkenalexander Can be found swimming with @swimdemcrew
London
Joined July 2011
What do sick people want to see? For @NewYorker, I wrote about hospital art, the nature v abstract debate, and why so many COVID patients convalesced in front of stock images of flowers…
newyorker.com
Patient advocates agree on the palliative effects of art. But they differ on what that art should look like.
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"Museums are already a case study in what we value—the works that are collected, conserved and displayed show what certain societies and individuals have deemed important over the centuries. ... Rarely is the process of prioritisation made as explicit as it is during an
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Billions of dollars’ worth of art is imperilled by climate change. Curators will have to make sacrifices
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Rarely is the process of prioritisation made as explicit as it is during a museum evacuation. Curators have to choose which works should be saved in a natural disaster. One fine-art insurance broker calls such inventories “the grab list”
economist.com
Billions of dollars’ worth of art is imperilled by climate change. Curators will have to make sacrifices
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Billions of dollars’ worth of art is imperilled by climate change. Curators will have to make sacrifices
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Billions of dollars’ worth of art is imperilled by climate change. Curators will have to make sacrifices
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I wrote about how museums decide what to take first when there is a fire or flood.
economist.com
Billions of dollars’ worth of art is imperilled by climate change. Curators will have to make sacrifices
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I wrote about the darts for the FT! A maddeningly stressful game. And the second most watched sport on TV behind football.
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Premier League Darts is making its top stars multimillionaires. Pressure to perform is intense
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Why do I become an absolutely freak when trying to spell my name on the phone. just said L for langoustine. D for Dalmatian. Send help
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Somaya Critchlow’s bold and intimate works are redefining figurative painting, blending classical influences with contemporary themes. 👩🏾🎨 #somayacritchlow #contemporaryart @FT
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Somaya’s first institutional show will open at @DulwichGallery next year. A show of her drawings is currently on at Maximillian William, curated by Hilton Als
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I profiled Somaya Critchlow, who is, I think, one of the UK’s most ambitious and thoughtful young artists, for the @FTMag. It’s a piece about art and power, and art and politics (a slightly loaded topic in the Twitter/clickbait discourse this week)
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What Somaya Critchlow sees
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a chunk of anne rice's library is up for auction and this row of lots sent me into a fit.
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It would never be as good of an entry as “loving your parents” but it would soothe photo geeks like me
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If I were Nicky Haslam I would put iPhone camera “Portrait Mode” on the next one of these
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Imagine if you fell in love with someone and then they waited for the ticket barriers to close behind the person in front of them before tapping their card on the tube
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The unique stinging shame of being told you have the torch on on your iphone. Nothing worse.
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Objectify me: furniture, fetish & feminism. ‘I am the Last Woman Object’ declared Nicola L. in 1969. But 55y later, stereotypes remain and women continue to create body furniture to challenge uncomfortable truths. By @LouStoppard @CamdenArtCentre #PayWall
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‘I am the Last Woman Object’ declared Nicola L. in 1969. But 55 years later, stereotypes remain and women continue to create body furniture to challenge uncomfortable truths
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Ming Smith! Barbara Walker! I’m looking forward to taking part in this year’s series of @friezeofficial Masters talks. Ours is titled ‘The Faces of Community: Inviting new ways to understand portraiture’. Details here:
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I was honoured to be asked to judge this year’s @NPGLondon Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize. The shortlist has now been announced. Details here
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No one has a half decent name any more. 100 years ago everyone had iconic ones. Those two astonishing ones from Fred Astaire’s Wikipedia alone. Eliphalet Nott Potter III and Hermes Pan. Hermes Pan!!!!
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He’s a touch old but I want Jeremy strong to play Evan Gershkovich in the movie
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