by Clare Finn | Apr 7, 2021 | Uncategorized, Visual Arts
For those coming across the work of the British painter, Mary Newcomb, for the first time her paintings may look naïve. Her proportions seem wrong. Her fore- and backgrounds come across as being amorphous, all on one plane. She seems not to use perspective. But there...
by Simon Tait | Mar 16, 2021 | Visual Arts
‘A fetish is a story masquerading as an object’ – Robert Stoller This morning I heard on the radio that the body of Sarah Everard, a young woman missing for a week, has been found in undergrowth and that a member of the Metropolitan police has been arrested. We...
by Music Editor | Feb 15, 2021 | Awards, Books, Dance, Drama, Film, Music, Uncategorized, Visual Arts
One of the greatest living stars of British classical music, the mezzo-soprano Dame Janet Baker CH DBE, was voted the winner of the 2019 Critics’ Circle Rosebowl by the 500 members of the Circle. Regrettably both the announcement and the award have been delayed...
by Clare Finn | Nov 10, 2020 | Visual Arts
The public know Turner as a painter of landscapes capturing light, weather, mist, storms and, in the words of his fellow artist John Constable, of painting with ‘tinted steam’. Yet Tate Britain’s current exhibition Turner’s Modern World reveals the artist in a whole...
by Simon Tait | Oct 21, 2020 | Visual Arts
The colourist painter Philip Sutton was 92 on October 20, and is using his experiences of eight months in lockdown to embark on the next phase of his career – as a gallerist. With several planned exhibition cancelled since February, Sutton is taking exhibiting his...
by Clare Finn | Jul 8, 2020 | Visual Arts
During the lockdown the second, and final, volume of Jed Perl’s biography of Alexander Calder was published. Not every modern master has been fortunate enough to have had an in depth biography written on them. But if Picasso has Richardson, Calder now has Perl. The...
