Tag Archives: art
Cutting Edge
As previously noted, I passed the time on Saturday afternoon by visiting Dulwich Picture Gallery to see the Cutting Edge exhibition, focused on linocut prints of the 1920s and 1930s. The notes compare the Grosvenor School artists to futurist and … Continue reading
Stockholm Syndrome
Fri 7th: I have spent the past day and a half off work with a cold, and although it is clearing, I still feel a bit under the weather. It’s an early start and I am surprised by roadworks on … Continue reading
Light fantastic
Yesterday we went to the National Gallery to see the Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light exhibition. Some pieces we’d seen before on our trip to Madrid in 2016; but others are new, some from private collections and others from New … Continue reading
Gloomy Saturday
We headed off into London today to see the Harald Sohlberg exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Unfortunately we failed to meet up with F, but nonetheless enjoyed the small but focused exhibition. Whilst one could not really describe them as … Continue reading
A fine exhibition, by Toutatis!
I vaguely recalled hearing about an Asterix exhibition some time ago, so when N enquired whether anyone was interested in visiting the Jewish Museum’s Goscinny exhibition, I realised that must have been what I was thinking of and so I … Continue reading
Finland awakes
Book Review: Come to Finland! Paradise calling, by Magnus Londen I enjoyed my visit to the Ateneum in Helsinki, and although thie pocket book relates to a previous exhibition at the National Museum of Finland I didn’t see, I’m glad … Continue reading
Ancient and Modern
We went to Oxford on Saturday to see the exhibition of America’s Cool Modernism at the Ashmolean. For the most part I enjoyed it, though one or two of the more abstract pieces didn’t really appeal; it was interesting to … Continue reading
Ultimate Steampunk
I’d missed Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge at Reading Film Theatre a couple of weeks ago due to illness, so I was pleased that last night I went to see Loving Vincent. The story is principally that of Armand … Continue reading
The Golden Age and beyond
Book Review: Poster to Poster – Railway Journeys in Art – Vol 2 Yorkshire and the North East, by Richard Furness The book sale at work spoils me as to the price and value of books; but we also have … Continue reading
Wait till they get to the bit about ‘Peace on Earth’ then let ’em have it
Book Review: Giles’s War – Cartoons 1939-45, edited by Tim Benson I think I first became aware of Carl Giles when I received this Christmas card from my Grandmother, which from the catalog must have been around 1980. When I … Continue reading
First and Second Law (of Thermodynamics) 