How does he do it? Sometimes time just drags and after several hours you look at the clock to see that only minutes have passed, but with Tim Marlow he does a programme about an exhibition and at the end you think it can’t be over yet, thats only 15 minutes and find that 45 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Art'
Hogarth, Marlow, Hislop, Gilbert & George
February 20th, 2007 · Comments Off on Hogarth, Marlow, Hislop, Gilbert & George · Life
Self-portrait with laptop
February 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
Well that is what I thought it looked like anyway… There is a painting at the Rijksmuseum called Self Portrait with Landscape by Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen. When it popped up on my screen in the brilliant Rijkswidget it really did look like a nineteenth-century laptop!
Recreating Art
January 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
I saw this photo the other day on Flickr. It is the result of a group of people in Beloit, Wisconsin who tried to recreate a painting of Seurat’s called Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte – or Un dimanche après-midi à l’Ile de la Grande Jatte if you want to get […]
Don’t believe everything you see in the papers
January 21st, 2007 · Comments Off on Don’t believe everything you see in the papers · Life
This article in today’s paper really wound me up. (No link. For some reason the link on their website isn’t working) It is not that I necessarily disagree with Charles Saumarez Smith’s opinions about public funding for the arts, or the effect free admission has had on museum visits or anything like that. No… what […]
Tags: Art·Newspapers
Scrum down at the National
January 18th, 2007 · Comments Off on Scrum down at the National · Life
I finally got round to visiting the Velzquez exhibition at the National Gallery today. I already cocked-up on dates and missed the Holbein exhibition at the Tate so I was determined not to miss this, even though it meant going in the morning to queue up to buy a ticket for entry in the afternoon. […]
So that was 2006?
December 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Life
There is still a week to go before the end, but I am going to assume nothing much will happen in that time – or should that be hope that nothing will happen (bearing in mind the terrorist fears in today’s Observer)? It has been a mixed year really. Music As far as music is […]
Tags: Art·Blogger·Blogging·Crawley Council·Dorset·DVD·Elections·Family·Films·Holidays·TV·West Ham·Wordpress·World Cup 2006
Rijkswidget
November 29th, 2006 · Comments Off on Rijkswidget · Technology
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is really in a league of its own as far as official museum websites go. Most major museums have the ability to view their collections online (except the Museo del Prado which either does not have the facility or has it very well-hidden) but they are often only in low-res small […]
Tags: Art·Netherlands
Well Hung
November 21st, 2006 · Comments Off on Well Hung · Life
Last week’s concluding part of Tim Marlow‘s guide to the re-hang at the Tate Modern prompted me to go and have a look, as I realised that I had not actually been in the galleries since the re-hang. The last couple of times I went to the place I was looking at the building, Rachel […]
Tags: Art·London·Photos·Tate Modern
What I learned today
November 20th, 2006 · Comments Off on What I learned today · Life
The artist Piet Modrian did not use the colour green in his paintings. He would not even allow the colour green in his house. The artist Thomas Schütt is well enough known to have a whole room full of his stuff at the Tate Modern, yet he is too obscure to get even a passing […]
Tags: Art·Tate Modern·WILT
TV Heaven
November 15th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Life
I go through long periods of hardly watching any television, which is silly considering the huge bloody set I bought. I often leave it on, tuned to a music channel or comedy channel as background, but might only actually watch a couple of specific programmes. I think I may have to change all that: either […]
