We got back to Bradford yesterday after one of our periodic “raids on London”. One of my “trophies” was the current Donatello exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. It was a startling experience, in a way I was certainly not expecting. In the contemporary world we place an enormous weight, in evaluating a work … 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
I expect that the controversy currently raging in the UK at the moment, about there legacy of slavery, will not have passed unnoticed in other countries. The dramatic toppling and defacing of statues and other public monuments is the kind of thing that secures headline treatment in the press the world over. Perhaps something similar … Read more