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My art week

This week we studied in our art class Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Lee Miller in our Tuesday class and French 18th Century art in our Thursday class. I also watched on Monday Britain’s Lost Masterpieces on BBC4 Our art tutor praised Marcel Duchamp as the second most important artist of the [...]

February 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

Sport comes back to earth and carries on

At the twin risks of ignoring the advice “If you cannot say something positive, say nothing” and straying from subjects I know anything about, today I have chosen to post today upon sporting matters. AMERICAN FOOTBALL (SUPER BOWL 55) I’m afraid that – in keeping with its other major [...]

February 9, 2021 // 0 Comments

My art week

Last week I watched a SKY ARTS programme on Salvador Dali, and my art courses were on Dadaism and the Grand Tour. Ostensibly there is nothing to link  all three. Indeed in their attack on Capitalism the Dadaists and Dali were polar opposites. There is however – as I shall show – strong [...]

February 6, 2021 // 0 Comments

Stark food for thought on the radio

Shortly before I rose from my bed overnight I was listening to the Stephen Nolan Show (2200 hours to 0100 hours) on Radio Five Live leading up to 1.00am. He was interviewing a gentleman whose name I did not catch and may (or may not) have been a Kiwi but – as far as I could tell from the [...]

February 6, 2021 // 0 Comments

The Dig/Netflix

This adaptation of John Preston’s novel based on Sutton Hoo has rightly received critical acclaim. It stars Ranulf Fiennes as Basil Brown the excavator commissioned by widow Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan) to investigate mounds on her land. He unearths a ship used to bury a Saxon King. The theme is [...]

February 2, 2021 // 0 Comments

If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes …

Yesterday out of the blue – simply because it was there – I opted to watch yesterday’s Premiership rugby match between Wasps and the Harlequins at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry which was being broadcast ‘live’ by BT Sport. Wasps and Quins have a long ‘London derby’ rivalry that began in [...]

February 1, 2021 // 0 Comments

THE WESTERNS

From, time to time we feature “Lists” of people, performers, plays, movies, sports teams … well, just anything you can make a list of and discuss/debate. Here’s one I spotted today, chosen by Graeme Ross, on the website of  – THE INDEPENDENT [...]

February 1, 2021 // 0 Comments

The Investigation (BBC 4)

Three episodes into this superb Danish Production based on the true story of a journalist apparently murdered at sea in a submarine I asked myself – and now you – why cannot the BBC produce such drama. The investigation centres for the first three episodes on the efforts to locate the [...]

January 30, 2021 // 0 Comments

Plus ca change…

One of the fascinations of art is the paradox that it’s always evolving with new movements but certain themes remain constant. In our art course this week we studied the final two of the abstract pathfinders (Kandinsky was the first) Malevich and Mondrian. Malevich was born in Belarus but [...]

January 29, 2021 // 0 Comments

Blithe Spirit (1945)

It was a mix of incompetence and coincidence that led to me watching this week the DVD of David Lean’s 1945 production of the Noel Coward play Blithe Spirit recently again released as a film. I fancied listening to some of the songs composed and sung by The Master. I recall my parents stack of [...]

January 27, 2021 // 0 Comments

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