It all started last summer when I booked a two week holiday in Venice but…
Arts
Looking for fine art and finding poetry at Le musée Paul Valéry, Sète
Le musée Paul Valéry, Sète One of my greatest pleasures in travelling is visiting…
It’s time for something beautiful and inspiring to come out of Russia again.
Looking at Vladimir Putin’s chilly expression, I felt cold too this morning. I had…
Was I wrong to be moved by these beautiful images of the Prophet Muhammad?
The Prophet Muhammad enthroned, Iran, early 14th century. Freer/Sackler Museum Of Asian Art/Smithsonian Institution.…
Scarborough’s pioneering theatre picks a winning team.
Charlotte Harwood and Christopher Harper in Slipping I was in Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre this…
Reading Rossetti’s poem, The Blessed Damozel, a Pre-Raphaelite moment here in Lewes.
I have been obsessing on the artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 – 1882)…
Rossetti’s The Blessed Damozel inspires the eroticism of a young Claude Debussy and a new era is born.
The Blessed Damozel (1875 – 1878) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti I have written before on this…
Henry Bell puts it on in Scarborough – Screenplay at the Stephen Joseph Theatre
Henry Bell Yesterday I related the sorry tale of my dilemma – which of…
Venice and Venetian art: not just over the top.
I can’t tell you about the wonders of Venice, especially as they struck…
Wining and dining with Henri Matisse at Tate Modern
Did you guess the answer to yesterday’s question? I was of course at the…