I don’t expect to post again until the 9th. any the soonest. My wife and I will be heading to London for one of our intermittent raids on the capital. Perhaps the primary reason for my visit is to spend time in the Library of the Estorick Collection. This is an interesting institution, devoted to … Read more
We are going down to London tomorrow on one of our periodic “raids”. It was planned that I would spend a day in the library of the Estorick Collection. (I am scheduled to give a talk in the New Year on the Italian modern artist Renato Guttuso. Their library will be an extremely valuable source … Read more
As usual when I make one of my periodic “raids” on London, I checked out the Estorick Collection. This is not one of the best-known galleries in the capital, but I have developed an attachment to it. Its special interest is Italian modern art, in which regular readers of this blog will know I have … Read more
When I am in London I usually make a visit to the Estorick Collection. This gallery, located in the Islington area, houses a collection of Italian modernist work, collected by its original owner, Eric Estorick. It attracts some quite prestigious loan exhibitions from Italian galleries, so there is always something new to see.* The current … Read more
I was interested by my own response this morning to the picture I dismissed so emphatically yesterday. Perhaps there is, perhaps, something worth continuing with here. We are heading down to London tomorrow, however, for a couple of days. This will be one of our occasional “raids” on galleries and theatres (and restaurants!). As a … Read more
Yesterday I made one of my intermittent “raids” on London in order to take in a couple of galleries. The contrast between these two experiences was really quite startling and could not have been chosen better in order to illustrate the way in which art changes, along with the way in which people view it. … Read more
I have been off line recently for several reasons. For some of the time I was visiting family in Oxford, and was kept pretty busy. I also had some (unexplained) technical reasons that stopped me getting on line. Several days, however, were spent in London, and some of that time working in the library of … Read more