Dr. Bendor Grosvenor 🇺🇦
@arthistorynews
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Historian, art historian, FRHistS. Columnist, @TheArtNewspaper. "Excitable nerd", New York Times. New book, The Invention of British Art.
Edinburgh
Joined December 2010
Excited to be able to share with you the front cover of my book. It's out October 10th. 1/3
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This is mad. The US government threatening to sanction those well known extremists… the Lib Dems.
None of those sanctioned is a current UK or EU official—however, we know that foreign government officials are actively targeting the United States. This week, the UK’s Liberal Democrats claimed President’s Trump National Security Strategy amounts to “foreign interference” by a
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Yet again, @JDVance , I am confused by the US approach to free speech.
Here is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues in full:
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ChatGPT 5.2 hallucinates as easily as earlier models did. Am I right to think this will always be the case with LLMs?
Unregulated generative AI is messing up the trustworthiness of scientific research, but what could go wrong
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They're actually doing it.
🇺🇸 Sneak Peek 🇺🇸 Our board recognizes that our Chairman, President Donald J. Trump, has not only saved this historic building but also created a truly bipartisan place to celebrate the arts. Some exciting changes are coming to reflect that—stay tuned!
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What would be the British equivalent be? Liz Truss adding her name to the Churchill War Rooms?
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Nothing in the American story is sacred anymore.
I have just been informed that the highly respected Board of the Kennedy Center, some of the most successful people from all parts of the world, have just voted unanimously to rename the Kennedy Center to the Trump-Kennedy Center, because of the unbelievable work President Trump
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Our Christmas special is now up. Waldemar explains how art invented Santa Claus. And I look into Peter Bruegel the Elder's mysterious and brilliant Adoration of the Magi. Waldy & Bendy's Adventures in Art, on all the usual platforms.
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Waldemar and I enjoyed dressing up for our Christmas special podcast. We spared no effort. I'm wearing a tea cosy.
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Another Brexit success.
The World Travel & Tourism Council (@WTTC) has been based in the UK since its creation in 1990. But the organisation has just announced it will move its HQ to Madrid, citing ‘challenges linked to Brexit, such as constraints on talent mobility’. https://t.co/EbM7eAFGLh
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We’re doing a question time special for our Christmas podcast offering. Send in yours below!
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The statement by 🇪🇺🇬🇧 leaders and presumable in this respect coordinated with 🇺🇸 on security guarantees for 🇺🇦 isn’t overly impressive, calling in the event of an attack for steps that ”may include armed force, intelligence and logistical assistance, economic and diplomatic
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Our evil, mentally ill president, celebrates the murder of Rob Reiner He - and all who enable him - will eventually go to hell. I pity them all.
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In the new episode of the podcast Bendy outlines his fiendish plan to murder me on an art trip to India. I’ve always been really nice to the guy, and this is how hé repays me. @arthistorynews
https://t.co/ehSnNBv79F
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A swift recovery to them and condolences to the friends and families of those killed in this horrendous anti-semitic, terrorist attack.
These are Hebrew names of the injured which have been shared with me so far. Please join me in praying for them, that they will have a refuah shelema - a complete and swift recovery. Reuven Ben Manya Chaya Mushka bas Shterna Sara Feivel Eliezer ben Dobra Bella Arsan ben Amelia
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This week’s Adventures in Art podcast is up. Waldemar and I explore our favourite gothic cathedrals, ask why museum staff are on strike, and celebrate the Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil. On all the usual platforms.
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This is v good.
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Trump's National Security Strategy: A Deep Dive Join @RoryStewartUK and @campbellclaret as they unpack Trump’s National Security Strategy: why it poses challenges for Europe, hands advantages to Russia, & marks the latest step in the “Make America Great Again”
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Pope Leo XIV says he thinks Donald Trump is trying to break apart the alliance between the United States and Europe: “The remarks that were made about Europe also in interviews recently, I think, are trying to break apart what I think needs to be a very important alliance today
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This piece of analysis which I have just posted, first @ForeignPolicy and now updated in my newsletter, is the result of several conversations with defence and security officials and politicians. It is stark in its warning. We are in grave danger https://t.co/dpCk3ZNFJN
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This is a public apology. I Waldemar Januszczak apologise to Bendor 'Bendy' Grosvenor, aka @arthistorynews, for frightening him in the latest Waldy&Bendy podcast with horrible images of Japanese rats. I thought it would help with his phobia. I was wrong. https://t.co/SmOKlnTnkg
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