"Primitive art" – John Allcock

Was that really what I enjoyed back then?

09/01/202517/02/2021 by John

I’ve had a curious experience over the past couple of days that has set me thinking about the ways in which our tastes change as we grow older. I like to vary my reading, alternating fiction and non-fiction, and also poetry. Having had a fairly solid slab of non-fiction recently, and no clear inclination to … Read more

Africa is where it’s at!

09/01/202502/12/2020 by John

I gather that African art is the thing which you should be taking an interest these days. Several big museums and sale-rooms have big exhibitions on this theme at the moment. The Barbican in London, I discover, will be mounting a major show during January, of the work of Toyin Ojih Adutola, from Nigeria (who … Read more