The Q magazine published today has a full-page advert for the DVD of Pulse - the 1994 Pink Floyd concert: the one which was supposed to be out last October, which slipped to december, then January, then November 2006.  I just checked on Amazon and they have a revised release date of July 10th 2006.
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Morris Dancers!!,
originally uploaded by Krypto.
Andrew at Wongablog has spotted further suspicious behaviour on the streets of Britain.
I imagine the phone call going something like this:
“Hello 999, police please… hello police, there are a group of men carrying stout sticks facing up to each other in the High Street. They appear to be [...]

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This week’s revelation has been the paintings of Gerrit Dou.
I have been overlooking his paintings in the National Gallery while rushing off to see the famous Rembrandts, Vermeers and de Hoochs, but today I stopped and looked at this example of what are called his ‘niche’ paintings. (An interior scene viewed through a window or [...]

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I came across the strandbeests by chance at lunchtime today.
I had gone across the river with the intention of looking at the Dutch realist paintings in the National Gallery again, knowing that I would be tempted to have another gawp at the Joseph Wright of Derby painting. (I just love saying the name. Its so [...]

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