A Student of Rock-Pools
At the tremor of his footsteps Little transparent eft-like things sank And disappeared into the wet sand, But he…
The Abstractionist
How could he be eighty-one already? Looking out through his one decent eye, nothing seemed to have changed at…
Puggy Booth’s Secret
The admiral’s teeth have been giving him gyp. He’s had to have all his real ones out. The new…
The Voyage of the Ancient Mariner as Automythography
I… never exist wholly present to any Sight, to any Sound, to any Emotion, to any series of Thoughts…
In Gauguin’s Shadow
Emile Bernard, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris and Kunsthalle, Bremen Emile Bernard (1868-1941), Musée D’Orsay/Glammarion, $39 17 September 2014 –…
Tough as Old Boots
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1957–1965 edited by George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn and Lois More Overbeck,…
A Glinting Scree
A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde, Lavinia Greenlaw, Faber and Faber, 2014, 240pp, £16.99 (hardback) The poetic image can…
An Artist at Work
Rembrandt: The Late Works, 15 October – 18 January, Sainsbury Wing, The National Gallery (The Rijksmuseum, 12 February –17…
The Magus of Cheshire
In 2010 – on 10/10/10, to be precise – Alan Garner celebrated fifty years of The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, his…
John Keats and the Vale of Soul-Making
like this place very much. John Keats to J. H. Reynolds, 22nd November 1817 That which is creative…
Carry That Weight
Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love, James Booth, Bloomsbury, 2014, 544pp, £25 (hardback) Major modern poets are often saddled…
God’s Lonely Men: The Two De Niros
The actor Robert De Niro established his cinematic legacy playing taciturn characters whose individual standards, expectations, and inarticulateness place…
The Magic Realism of Julio Larraz
Julio Larraz Rules of Engagement ContiniArtUK Gallery 3 October – 24 November 2014 Julio Larraz, who comes from Cuba,…
Master Portrait Painter
Giovanni Battista Moroni Royal Academy 25 October 2014 – 25 January 2015 The gift of the true master portrait…
Festung Europa Hitler’s Atlantic Wall in Photographs
The Atlantic Wall – Hitler’s Coastal Fortress from the Arctic to the Pyrenees, Ianthe Ruthven with a foreword by…
Pleasing People Seriously
Benjamin Britten, War Requiem, Royal Albert Hall, Remembrance Sunday, 9 November 2014 at 3.30pm, with Evelina Dobračeva (soprano), Stephan…
The Poetry and The Pity
Some Desperate Glory, Max Egremont, Picador, 2014, 336pp, £20 (hardback) Horses Between Our Legs, Patricia McCarthy, Agenda Editions, 2014,…
Art for Art’s Sake
A Victorian Obsession Leighton House Museum 14 November 2014 – 29 March 2015 A Victorian Obsession, an exhibition at…
A Stagnant Art World
Post Pop: East Meets West, The Saatchi Gallery, 26 November 2014 – 23 February 2015 Sturtevant: Double Trouble, The…
Aiming a Wild Kick
Roger Hilton Jonathan Clark Fine Art (by appointment) 18 Park Walk, London SW10 0AQ <info@jcfa.co.uk> Why do some artists…
This is What a Feminist Looks Like
Allen Jones RA Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington Gardens, London 13 November 2014 – 25 January 2015 Exhibition curator…
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