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Jun 12
Gosh, David Hockney gone. I thought he was immortal.
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Artists rarely paint views from studios other than their own. In this work from 1807 by the German landscape painter Carl Ludwig Kaaz the view through an open window, without any figures was rare for an oil painting at the time.
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May 28
To mark the rechalking of the Cerne Abbas Giant, here is an extract from my book Upon A White Horse – in which I write about meeting the Giant on May Day. If you enjoy my writing, please do share.
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May 25
Pablo Picasso à Jean Cocteau (1919)
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May 16
Cafétéria New-York, 1973
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Very much enjoyed coming up with my top 10 for the 100 best novels in today’s @GuardianBooks!
Link to my list in the reply.
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May 15
Meanwhile, @Guardian are offering a list of the '100 Best Novels of All Time'
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May 11
One for Radio 4's 'The Reunion'
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Brilliant film
May 11
M's 95th anniversary ~ A landmark in filmmaking form, Fritz Lang introduces, and masters techniques like the leitmotif and diegetic sound to create now cinematic trademarks, the film remains more audacious than most contemporary films
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May 8
One fun thing about Germany is that you'll be reading a long piece about housing policy in a sober news weekly and then just come across something like this
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Apr 30
“Oh Christ, the cook is dead”
In February 1977, a chap wrote to SPIKE MILLIGAN after reading ‘Monty: His Part in My Victory’ - the third installment of Spike’s memoirs on his life as a soldier in WW2 - with some complaints.
This was Spike’s reply.
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Apr 29
I was the junior writer on the Radio 4 newsdesk at BH when the first vague reports of a radioactive cloud broke that day. The editors asked me to write it up for the lunchtime news because it seemed a relatively minor story. When Moscow finally made an announcement the 6pm
Apr 26
I used to keep a news diary as a kid. 40 years ago I wrote in it a word I'd never heard before: Chernobyl.
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“The young spent 18 minutes a day reading for pleasure compared with three hours and one minute looking at a screen. One third of 16 to 19-year-olds read nothing at all.”
Book lovers’ cathedral on the brink as Paris turns the page on reading
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