I’m fortunate enough to have a few friends that are up and coming artists. Like most people my own art education was pretty conventional, and it’s taken me a while to get accustomed to the kind of experimental work coming out of today’s art schools. Without this personal connection, I doubt I would have taken…
Click to enlarge From a pile of prints and newspapers I picked up in Spitafields market.
There was an interesting article in the Guardian a couple of weeks ago on Noel Coward and Ivor Novello’s previously unreported flirtation with fascism – a chance discovery of a poster in a London market revealing both on the billing for the British Fascist’s Carnival Ball of 1925. Both gay men, the author (Philip Hoare)…
As doubtless most of you are aware there is currently a giant blue cockerel in Trafalgar Square. It’s the creation of the German artist Katharina Fritsch, and has been there since last June where it was unveiled to headlines including, “Big Blue cock erected on fourth plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square” and “Boris Johnson unveils…
“I wonder if I shall have better luck with this experiment!”
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