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“The Weather” – exhibition at The Room/Poetry Reading/Cloud Performance for Kids
There is an exhibition in homage to Luke Howard ‘Namer of Clouds’ on his 250th anniversary at The Room, 33 Holcombe Road N17 9AS – 15 November 2022-14 December 2022. Also included – Sandie Macrae’s film “The Most Beautiful Shadow … Continue reading
Posted in art, Dance, Performance Art, Poetry
Tagged Children's performance art, Clouds, Luke Howard, Luke Howard's anniversary, Namer of Clouds, The Room
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Shunga 1-6
SHUNGA 1 Over the bedspread His pipe is well-used, and he fills it again. You’re wearing a mantle over your gown Because he likes to enter the reserve, Searching here and there for its waterfall. x You have done up … Continue reading
Posted in art, Poetry
Tagged erotic art, erotic poetry, Japanese art, Japanese shunga, Shunga
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Two Sequences of Poems by David Plante
Two Sequences of Poems by David Plante I am proud to introduce these two sequences by David. He and Nikos Stangos were vital components of the London scene in the 60s and 70s – two people I would see as … Continue reading
Posted in art, Poetry
Tagged David Plante, Fire, Nikos Stangos, The Fortnightly Review, versions from Italian
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Madame Gautreau Drinking a Toast
Terrific article in Artsy about this restless sitter by Alina Cohen
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Tagged Alina Cohen, Artsy, John Singer Sargent, Madame Gautreau, Sante
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I Love Russia!
I love Russia. Wonderful people, wonderful dancers, wonderful minds. I am sickened by Western hate-propaganda instigated by the mass media and by our corrupt leaders. I recall with huge fondness my one performance in Russia: Homage to the Horses of … Continue reading
Posted in art, Dance, Performance Art, Politics
Tagged horses, Performance Art, Russia, the Manege Saint Petersburg
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Georges Braque: The Poetry of Things
Click here for my review of Georges Braque’s still lives. Bernard Jacobson Gallery, winter 21/22 Discussing the medium itself, together with my view of who might be the most significant still life artists of the 20th century. Braque is certainly … Continue reading
Posted in art, Essays
Tagged Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Georges Braque, Jane Freilicher, Morandi, painting, Pierre Reverdy, Still life, William Nicholson
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The Hump-Backed Bridge
THE HUMP-BACKED BRIDGE I was just six years old. My mother dropped me off at school in Caversham, and then I found my own way home by boarding the bus near Saint Peter’s Hill that would take me to its … Continue reading