Arts Writer and Commentator with words in Guardian, FT, Plaster Magazine, Independent and Dazed. You can pre-order My Opinionated Guide to Erotic Art here: https://www.hoxtonminipress.com/products/an-opinionated-guide-to-erotic-arthttps://bsky.app/profile/eliseybell.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/eliseybell.bsky.social/post/3mjjofqmo322hNeed to talk to someone about the absurd intensity of Ben Lerner’s publicity photos15 Apr 2026 10:22 +0000at://did:plc:rvrnyvb7rwydwn6gil6o7glv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjjofqmo322hhttps://bsky.app/profile/eliseybell.bsky.social/post/3mjjm3vn2u224Increasingly going to start calling myself part of the 'Lost Leeds Tram Generation. My last words to my grandchildren before the Dignitas injection takes me will be that Leeds is the biggest city in Europe without a mass transit system. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/15/field-of-dreams-stuff-will-leeds-finally-get-its-trams-after-decades-of-promises15 Apr 2026 09:41 +0000at://did:plc:rvrnyvb7rwydwn6gil6o7glv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjjm3vn2u224https://bsky.app/profile/eliseybell.bsky.social/post/3mga75tqex22oKeen to read Lost Lambs by Madeleine Cash - in part because the Substack commentary is driving me insane and I haven't even read the thing. I get 'dimes square-adjacent' is annoying, but a lot of the critique amounts to: This plot point is WEIRD and I don't agree with it!04 Mar 2026 11:39 +0000at://did:plc:rvrnyvb7rwydwn6gil6o7glv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mga75tqex22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/eliseybell.bsky.social/post/3m5bfaazvx22nI love John Updike but I had to stop reading ‘Couples’ because it was so compulsively nasty that for the two weeks I was nose deep it genuinely made me a meaner, and like, Activated for a Fight. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiction/review-a-life-in-letters-john-updike/10 Nov 2025 10:14 +0000at://did:plc:rvrnyvb7rwydwn6gil6o7glv/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5bfaazvx22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/eliseybell.bsky.social/post/3m4s7nwmfis2sObsessed with ‘The Office Party’ episode of Man Alive on iPlayer - a 1969 documentary about an office Christmas party at a London based advertising agency that has it all: marital affairs, eyeliner, drunk directors, a man singing opera in Welsh. Long live the archive!04 Nov 2025 09:24 +0000at://did:plc:rvrnyvb7rwydwn6gil6o7glv/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4s7nwmfis2shttps://bsky.app/profile/eliseybell.bsky.social/post/3m4dhj4yqnk27I have been saying this for years [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Oct 2025 12:35 +0000at://did:plc:rvrnyvb7rwydwn6gil6o7glv/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4dhj4yqnk27https://bsky.app/profile/eliseybell.bsky.social/post/3ly3h3tvots2yThe problem with people my age and younger going on Masterchef is that 90% of the time everything they cook feels a liiiitle bit too Mob Kitchen. The Ben Lippett effect needs to be studied.05 Sep 2025 10:26 +0000at://did:plc:rvrnyvb7rwydwn6gil6o7glv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ly3h3tvots2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/eliseybell.bsky.social/post/3lvnosauhq227Obsessed with the name of this baby carrier.05 Aug 2025 12:16 +0000at://did:plc:rvrnyvb7rwydwn6gil6o7glv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvnosauhq227https://bsky.app/profile/eliseybell.bsky.social/post/3luuiuwdbk22qIncredible wall signage at the Titanic Immersive Experience26 Jul 2025 11:53 +0000at://did:plc:rvrnyvb7rwydwn6gil6o7glv/app.bsky.feed.post/3luuiuwdbk22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/eliseybell.bsky.social/post/3lupxvr34q22oLot of big celebrity deaths of late. I feel in my waters a 2016-wave is approaching. We need to keep tabs on Al Pacino or so help me god24 Jul 2025 16:39 +0000at://did:plc:rvrnyvb7rwydwn6gil6o7glv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lupxvr34q22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/eliseybell.bsky.social/post/3lufqkdko2k2oFriends getting married, what a concept!20 Jul 2025 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:rvrnyvb7rwydwn6gil6o7glv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lufqkdko2k2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/eliseybell.bsky.social/post/3ltm3zqvahs24Real trend at the moment re famous people (actors, musicians etc) releasing to the media news of their artistic practice, almost always some terrible version of abstract expressionism and/or cartoonish version of pop art. A way to get cheap clicks? Media boost with faux sense of intelligence?10 Jul 2025 10:17 +0000at://did:plc:rvrnyvb7rwydwn6gil6o7glv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltm3zqvahs24