Turner – the Fighting Temeraire
PREVIOUS: DROUAIS – MADAME DE POMPADOUR J M W Turner: The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up: 1838 We see […]
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Holbein – The Ambassadors
PREVIOUS: RAPHAEL – POPE JULIUS II Hans Holbein: The Ambassadors: 1533 This is a picture full of meanings – some obvious, some hidden. We can […]
Botticelli – Venus and Mars
PREVIOUS: VAN EYCK, THE ARNOLFINI PORTRAIT Sandro Botticelli: Venus and Mars: about 1480-90 We’re back across the Alps to Florence for this painting, Botticelli’s Venus […]
Margarito d’Arezzo – The Virgin and Child Enthroned
Margarito d’Arezzo – The Virgin and Child Enthroned, with Narrative Scenes. About 1263-64 This is one of the earliest pictures in the National Gallery, dating […]
King Lear – Northern Broadsides
[Northern Broadsides production, Rose Theatre Kingston, 19-23 May 2015] Shakespeare’s King Lear is one of his most powerful tragedies, with fathers estranged from the children […]
Each His Own Wilderness – Doris Lessing
[Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. 15 April – 16 May 2015] Myra Bolton leads a hugely complicated life. Her house is littered with books, pamphlets and […]
Swimming in the Thames
Over on Kickstarter, the Thames Baths Project is within a whisker of getting its first stage of funding together to build a swimming pool on […]
Victorian London on Film
The very first moving pictures of London were taken by the cinematographic pioneer William Friese-Green in January 1889. He filmed Apsley Gate near Hyde Park […]
The Rosetta Stone – the key to understanding ancient Egypt
It’s a very dull piece of a granite-like stone, and the stuff that’s carved on it isn’t hugely interesting either – it’s to do with […]
Camley Street Natural Park – King’s Cross Oasis
Having passed through the King’s Cross development quite frequently over the past few years to meet clients, I know that the changes there have been […]