From the category archives:
Last week we went to the excellent Mantegna show at the Louvre. This head of San Marco is the first picture you see and it is quite staggering in the flesh. The saint’s expression is completely human, the hand in a wholly natural pose as if Mark is pausing to think of something crucial while [...]
{ 0 comments }
Here are my jottings-after-the-visit thoughts on this gallery in Houston. Set in beautiful old location, with old houses very like Manila as was. Trees, birds (Mynah?), fat red squirrels runing all over the place. Lawns. Manicured but not too much. Byzantine Chapel — beautiful, but much less actually physically there than I’d thought. [...]
{ 0 comments }
LBF and I went to the Lee Miller exhibition at the V&A today, and utterly great it was too.. I’ve been a big fan of hers for some time now, especially since seeing “The Surrealist and the Photographer” exhibition in Edinburgh about 5 years ago, where there was a good collection of her pictures alongside the [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Last Tuesday, La Belle Femme and I went to the Tate to see the absolutely wonderful Holbein show. This being midweek, the place was jam-packed with Saga Louts and I should guess that we were the youngest people there by about 25 years, save for the well-behaved school party there. However, since the older people [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Kelly is one of my favourite modern artists and I was pleased to see that he has this show on at the Serpentine, from 18 March to 21 May. The show is of 18 pieces made since 2002. I really like his early stuff, which I had admittedly seen only in reproduction, and there are [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Go and see this Originally uploaded by Jolyon. This looks well worth seeing.
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Lovely afternoon today. While G went off to the Trocadero with Rachel and Nico, we took Leggy down to the National Gallery where I had been wanting to re-view the Piero di Cosimo painting of the Satyr mourning over a nymph. It’s one of my favourite paintings of all, with its Molesworth skool [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Reminder to future me: go and see the Tom Hunter exhibition at the National Gallery. On until 12 March 2006.
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
You always find good stuff in the London Review of Books. From the latest edition [subscription only] comes this marvellous account of how they overcame problems of fuel starvation in early Merlin engines fitted to Spitfires: The most brutal test of the Merlin engine’s fitness came when it was used in combat. In early models, [...]
{ 0 comments }
This week is the last week of the “Robert Frank exhibition”:http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/frank/ at the Tate. Don’t forget to go, Jolyon. And then write it up here afterwards. photography
{ 0 comments }
