Today in Naff Public Art:.

RT @AuberonWaugh_PE: 14/5/83: With 20 seaside resorts opening nude and topless beaches this summer, I really do not see the need to keep th….

And a spelling of @Kimbellart that shows how much effort he and the Grauniad's sub-editors have put into the article.

Simon Jenkins leading a predictable article on letting museums charge for admission with the oddest take on museums I've ever seen.

RT @AuberonWaugh_PE: 18 May 1975: Universities should sell their "students" in order to preserve their art treasures. Students are easily r….

RT @RembrandtsRoom: Manuel Benedito Vives, a boy with a hen. 1913

RT @mutley7781: Empress Theodora & her court - Basilica di S. Vitale, #Ravenna. Dating to the 6th C. I particular like how the craftsmen ha….

Tazza Farnese, Naples

Dear Curator, I am writing my dissertation on #decolonizingmuseums @LeicsMusStud and I would be grateful if you could answer the attached 47 page questionnaire by the end of next week.

The main reason #academictwitter is terrible is because it involves people who have had to write a 50000 word PhD thesis and who consider things carefully from all angles for a living having to try to be funny which doesn't come naturally to them and then be concise and they just.

RT @cshperspectives: Best predatory journal spam invite ever 🤣

The Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste has moved to the Theatre Museum for renovations. Titian's amazing brushwork (finished? unfinished? glad he stopped when he did) in his late Tarquin and Lucretia.

The #Dürer show @AlbertinaMuseum. is stunning. He's a hard artist to love but it's impossible not to admire him. The hands! (here, Maximilian I fondling a slightly dubious pomegranate)

Don't care if it's only given to a follower of Monsu Desidero, I'd take this Sack of Troy @ChristiesInc in a heartbeat. And the cradling on the back is charming (although, er, not working very well).

Possibly the weirdest "Rembrandt - Velazquez" pairing imaginable?.

RT @wyvernandstar: Proud to share my groundbreaking research into the Frog of Willendorf (and correct decades of academic misinterpr….

Something for @ltdla, who keeps an eye on the Louvre.

humbly paging @dr_humblebrag for zir invaluable thoughts.

RT @mushenska: I honestly think if films with dogs in were prefaced with a screen that said ‘the dog survived’ I could relax a lot more whe….

RT @obliqueirony: @HeerJeet Brought to you by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for the Preservation of Middle Initials.