Category: Art

Ruff Trade

  The Wallace Collection has a small but magnificent exhibition – Hals: The Male Portrait;

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Reunion

Fred Uhlman (1901 – 1985) was primarily an artist. I don’t know if the picture is a self-portrait. I don’t think it’s his style.

American Art

Three years ago Christo’s mastaba floated majestically, magically, colourfully and enchantingly on the Serpentine.

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Another Diana

Estcourt J Clack sounds like a character from PG Wodehouse; a dyspeptic American millionaire perhaps.

Copernicus

My Cultural Attaché has returned to London after a short spell in Poland and a longer one in the US. She is curating interesting outings paired with excellent restaurants.

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Old Hammersmith

This is what I saw yesterday at the top of the escalators on the first floor of Charing Cross Hospital. It was commissioned “for the benefit of elderly patients” and being one myself I drank it in, so to speak.

Up at the Net

Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia was thirty-three when this was published in Vanity Fair.

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Masterpieces

Yesterday was the first warm, sunny day in London this month.

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