Category: Art

Leavers

In the Spring of 1951 the Tate had an exhibition. This is how top-notch art dealer Geoffrey Agnew described it.

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Flypast

I went to Buckingham Palace yesterday to watch the centennial RAF flypast and thought I’d do something I’ve never done – watch the Royal Family making a balcony appearance.

Travel Writing

It was only towards the end of June that I wrote about Frank Gardner’s memoir, Blood & Sand. I may have omitted to mention that I was given three of Frank Gardner’s books for my birthday this year.

AWBC

On Friday morning I left home at 7.15, exactly the time I used to leave to trudge into my office. I had a much more enticing destination: the Ancient World Breakfast Club.

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A Tide in the Affairs of Women

The BBC Weather Tide Tables is the place to go to find tidal timetables in the UK. It’s especially useful as you can look up to a week ahead.

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Art on the Underground

In 1908 the tube had got as far as Golders Green and Frank Pick wanted to be sure the public knew. It was I suppose the Crossrail of its day.

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Mastaba

The Serpentine Gallery pavilion is still under construction but this summer it will be dwarfed by a giant, red, floating mastaba across the road on the Serpentine in Hyde Park.

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Green Rooms

The re-building of Dresden is almost complete but, as in any city, there is a continuum of regeneration. A bridge over the Elbe is closed to traffic for reconstruction and some bomb sites have not been rebuilt.

Annabel

People say “what goes around comes around”, EM Foster says “only connect” and Anthony Powell wrote Dance to the Music of Time to make the same point at somewhat greater length; a saga with which I struggled a bit early on, but once WW II came along I was hooked.