Blog Archive
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2021
Sep 10 Peaceable Kingdom
Aug 15 Cooking with Colour
May 24 The Notes You Don’t Play
Apr 29 Rembrandt’s Tree
Apr 15 Trees, Forests, and Neural Networks
Apr 4 Michelangelo and me
Mar 12 The Big Picture
2020
Nov 17 A Vindication of the Rights of Mary Wollstonecraft
Jul 13 Grouse or Not Grouse?
May 3 Lockdown Blues
Mar 12 Elsewhere, or the Taste for Other Places (Le Goût d’Ailleurs)
2019
Dec 17 Time Present and Time Past
Nov 23 Known Unknowns
Nov 8 Eppur si Muove
Oct 29 The Divided Self
Oct 3 Vessels of Meaning
Jun 2 The Possibilities of Painting
May 7 Letter from Japan
Mar 26 Seeds are for Sowing
Mar 18 Hauntings
Feb 13 In the Land its Story
2018
Dec 28 Winter Words
Dec 1 Tombstones, Bad Boys and Fond Farewells, Letter from Paris III
Nov 26 Gilets Jaunes: Miro’s blacks, and Picasso’s Blues and Pinks
Nov 18 Museums without walls. A letter from wintry Paris
Sept 30 Mantegna and Bellini at the National Gallery London
Sept 27 Kiko Moana: Oceania at the Royal Academy London
Sept 18 The Consolations of Art, or My Hovercraft is Full of Eels
May 14 Van Gogh and Japan
May 1 Kinstukoroi and Letting the Light in
April 6 Fame and Fridamania
Mar 8 Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame, Tragedy
Feb 27 All Too Human
Feb 10 Blockbusters and Smaller Pleasures
Jan 10 Shopping in my Garage
2017
Dec 18 Lost in Arcadia: Gaugin, the Alchemist. Grand Palais, Paris
Nov 22 Modigliani and Weinstein
Nov 10 Imperishable Sensations. Soutine’s Portraits: Cooks, Waiters and Bellboys
Nov 2 Impressionists in London: French Artists in Exile (1870 – 1904)
Oct 29 Monochrome
Oct 14 Anything is All There Is: Basquiat
Aug 26 Pierre Soulage and Rodez
Aug 21 Gertrude Stein: Roses and Moses Supposes
Jun 27 A Clean Sweep
May 26 An Artist of the Floating World
May 12 Out of Nothing, Something
May 2 Bordeaux and Deep, Dark Blue
Apr 21 Belfast: A Museum of Walls
Apr 7 Queer British Art
Apr 2 Women’s Images of Trees
Mar 22 Howard Hodgkin
Mar 15 Michelangelo and Sebastiano
Mar 7 Vanessa Bell