1st April 2024
John Wyver writes: V&A South Kensington is hosting, until 22 September, Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence, a comparatively small-scale exhibition about the fascinating topic of, as the website says, 'a unique style of mid-century architecture which fused the clean
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1st April 2024
John Wyver writes: I am lucky enough to be in New York for a couple of nights (look out for a 'Postcard' from the city here soon) and I spent yesterday afternoon in the peerless permanent collections galleries of the
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31st March 2024
John Wyver writes: I had been looking forward to Peter Biskind's latest book, which in the States is titled Pandora's Box: How Guts, Guile and Greed Upended TV, and which over here carries the slightly desperate, and arguably
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27th March 2024
John Wyver writes: Here's another brief, random note about a cultural object that I've encountered in the past few days, in this case Fritz Lang's Western with Henry Fonda and Gene Tierney, which I saw at what I persist in
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27th March 2024
John Wyver writes: I'm pleased that I seem to be managing to keep the Sunday dozen going, and while I don't feel ready - or have the time - to return to blogging more seriously, I want to try floating
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