Showing posts with label Culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Culture. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 04, 2026

Is it Art

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  source: Lynn News   A poignant drama played itself out this week in the Fens. Not the story about the idiot at Sainsbury's, the other ...
Friday, November 14, 2025

A Load of Old Rope

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source:  Stephan Friedman Gallery  There was considerable media interest in the announcement this week that an exhibit of rope was on sale, ...
Saturday, October 01, 2022

Crisis, What Crisis?

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 Bettany Hughes, OBE is a distinguished historian and teacher. She has published many books on classical history and made many television pr...
Friday, December 13, 2019

101 Things #36 - Let Us Go Fourth

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It is a great honour you do me. Really, I am flattered to have been asked. I know that to be included in the select group, who have already ...
Sunday, December 08, 2019

If this is Art then I'm a banana

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You may have noticed that each of these little musings has a tag - a handy way to find all the posts of a particular type - and these are he...
Monday, October 21, 2019

Another Duff Gig

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A picture , newly attributed to Rembrandt, is to be displayed in the UK next year. He was a top-notch painter, no doubt about that. This one...
Sunday, September 29, 2019

Blow My Mind, Waiter.

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The trend for even more exotic ingredients in the dishes served by the great restaurants of the world seems to have reached a new, and rathe...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Poetry Corner

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A type of short poem called a "Cherita" has recently come to my attention. Created in 1997 by Ai Li (who is also, I learn from her...
Friday, November 16, 2018

Stumped by the Googlies, or something

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How refreshing to see a truly British cliché replace the tired old Americanisms. Yesterday I was in despair when the BBC's political cor...
Friday, June 15, 2018

A tomb without a view

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Art, and what makes something worthy of being called art, is an endlessly fascinating topic. I have previously ruminated on the strangeness...
Friday, February 09, 2018

Saying it like it is

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The sports news on Radio 4's Today programme this morning covered the opening of the Winter Olympics in Korea. Someone in the British te...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

The Morality of Ledgers

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BBC Radio 4's flagship news programme, Today, devoted this morning's output to the question of how digital technologies are changing...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Bakers and Breaks

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The all-new, improved, Great British Bake-Off began its seventh series last night having moved from the BBC to Channel 4. One new judge, two...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Brian Aldiss

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Very sad to note the death yesterday of Brian Aldiss, one of the finest writers of science fiction this country, indeed the world, has seen....
Sunday, August 13, 2017

The Limits of Belief

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 Words change their meaning all the time in modern English. I found the misuse of one of them in the strapline of a petfood company advertis...
Thursday, July 13, 2017

Just as it happened

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My morning paper chose to print what can only be described as a "puff" on behalf of the forthcoming Channel 4 TV series Great Bri...
Friday, July 07, 2017

Getting the Parts

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There is a story this morning that a US philanthropic organisation is angry that Alec Baldwin was cast to play the lead in a film about a b...
Monday, February 27, 2017

And the Winning Picture is? Er, 'old on a mo, I had it somewhere...

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I mused a while back about what would really go on behind the scenes when auditors were called in to investigate affairs at the Vatican . I ...
Saturday, November 26, 2016

Three for the price of one

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 My eye was caught by an ad for a theatrical presentation at the Donmar Warehouse in Kings Cross and I present it to you thus: Now there...
Saturday, July 30, 2016

Getting a life (or, You shall go to the balls)

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Responding to criticism of a new Channel 4 TV show, featuring nudity (artistic, essential, not in any way a desperate attempt to up the rati...