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Auction houses v Art dealers

Yesterday I spent the whole of my afternoon following the Christie’s auction of Modern British and Irish Art. The famous auction house has adapted to the digital age by holding auctions online. It attracts a more global audience but I felt some of the bidding tension one experiences in the room [...]

October 18, 2024 // 0 Comments

Taste/Stanley Tucci: My Life Through Food (2021)

Stanley Tucci is a successful film actor who has made a second career of out his great interest in – and love of – food. I first became aware of this through his TV programmes travelling to different cities and reporting on their cuisine. He develops this in his book starting with [...]

October 17, 2024 // 0 Comments

3 art views

I’m sometimes asked whether I have visited any of the big art exhibitions in London right now – the Van Gogh at the National Gallery, the Francis Bacon at the National Portrait Gallery and the Claude Monet at the Courtauld. The answer is an emphatic “No” as these block buster [...]

October 16, 2024 // 0 Comments

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Harlequins 17 Saracens 10

It’s been 1700 minutes since Quins won theLondon bragging rights. On a weekend of no Premiership or Championship football the schedulers showed commendable planning by making this a rugby union Premiership derby weekend. We Quins fans view our north London neighbours as playing fast and loose [...]

October 14, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Art of Cinema/Sky Arts

Last week’s programme presented by Ian Nathan focussed on script supervisors, once called ‘continuity girls’. These provide an essential input by creating the illusion of reality in a film and avoiding ‘bloopers’. Clive James once presented a programme on Saturday mornings [...]

October 12, 2024 // 0 Comments

Thoughts on a great England Test victory overseas

England’s Test victory by an innings and 47 runs deservedly made the sporting headlines but still had to vie with the 1-2 defeat in soccer by Greece. The wicket at Multan was docile which made the Pakistan collapse on the fourth and fifth days all the more inexplicable. The Test will be [...]

October 12, 2024 // 0 Comments

Confronting & complying with the digital age.

A common beef amongst us elder Rusters is the constant reference and delegation by service  providers to mobiles and websites. How many times – when you are hanging on the phone trying to reach a human – do you have to hear the words: “You might find it easier to use our website [...]

October 11, 2024 // 0 Comments

Two seismic documentaries

This week BBC and Channel 4 have commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Brighton Grand Hotel bombing and the first anniversary of the Hamas attack on Southern Israel with documentaries. Of the two documentaries I found Brighton Bombing – The Plot To Kill Mrs Thatcher the more riveting. Its [...]

October 10, 2024 // 0 Comments

Redlands/Chichester Festival Theatre (review)

With almost six decades of connection with the area behind us – and our status as “friends” of Chichester Festival Theatre – when this season’s announcement of future productions arrived about six months ago my wife and I had immediately identified this production as one we wished [...]

October 9, 2024 // 0 Comments

Gabriel’s Moon/William Boyd

A newly published William Boyd novel is a big literary event especially for his legion of followers. The general critical view is his recent novels fall short of his earliest West African  ones and Any Human Heart. He is a master story teller and Gabriel’s Moon conforms to that. There are [...]

October 9, 2024 // 0 Comments

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