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…
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…
Thrum in Tandem
An Aviary of Small Birds, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Carcanet, 2014, 88pp, £9.95 (paperback) The Weather Wheel, Mimi Khalvati, Carcanet,…
The Pope Gives His Approval
Summers always have to come to an end. As the children went back to their respective schools, I realised…
Marilynne Robinson: The Gilead Novels
With Gilead (2004), Home (2008) and Lila (2014) Marilynne Robinson has produced a body of work of a quality…
Mailer on Hemingway and Lawrence
In the New York Times of November 28, 2014 Dwight Garner called Norman Mailer’s letters ‘mostly low-wattage, a rolling…
Glatt’s Ronda
Justin Glatt. Remember him? Probably not, but, for a while, he was a name, not mega, as they say,…
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