9th August 2014
The Tate Britain exhibition Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation closes tomorrow, Sunday 10 August. I remain thrilled to have contributed to this by curating the television extracts and writing a catalogue essay about the television programmes that Clark made for ATV
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19th May 2014
It has been just over a month since I last posted, for which I can only apologise. Not that I haven't had things to write about. Rather too many of them, in fact. Which in part accounts for my failure
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24th October 2013
I was particularly sorry today to learn of the death at the age of 89 of sculptor Anthony Caro. Like many others, I believe that he was a great artist, and he was also – at least on the evidence
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20th May 2013
... and one that I just don't understand - but we'll get to that. The re-hang of Tate Britain is complete and unquestionably and unreservedly is a cause for celebration. The main circuit of the galleries is now
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19th May 2013
No doubt about the key cultural event of the week: the opening of the completed re-hang of 500 years of British art at Tate Britain. Tomorrow's post will be 10 things I already love there -
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12th May 2013
So you've probably seen this already, even though it was only posted six days ago. Since when it has clocked up more than 3.7 million YouTube views. Yes, it's the video illustrating part of the audio recording of
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12th January 2013
Always looking for the new and different, I am extending this blog's 'Links for the weekend' (see tomorrow) with a complementary post that features just videos. Which doesn't mean that I won't include videos in the 'Links' but rather that
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