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  What is art? … according to me and my new mate Claude

  17th April 2026 Preamble It’s been a few years since I took this blog seriously. It started as a way of recording and illuminating my own cultural life. Following quasi retirement and concomitant dormancy. It branched out a bit. But it all got a bit much to maintain. And Covid…

  April 17, 2026
• art Comedy Culture Ghana Identity India Medieval Monarchy Painting Photography Physical Theatre Power Race Religion Technology Theatre UK

  Catching up (Part 7)

  July 2021 Out West – The Overseas Student – Blue Water and Cold and Fresh – Go, Girl – Lyric Hammersmith – 7th July – ***** Rachel O’Riordan, the AD at the Lyric Hammersmith, might be as good if not better at programming plays as she is directing herself. And…

  January 31, 2023
• Agency art Capitalism Class Community Culture Exhibition Friendship Language London Masculinity Photography Place Power Privilege Race Religion Theatre Wales

  Catching up (Part 6)

  June 2021 Oleanna – Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath – 28th June – ***** Finally an opportunity to scratch that travel itch. The SO was forced to drive the Tourist around some of the loveliest parts of Northern England in early June, but the attractions were almost entirely architectural and…

  November 28, 2021
• Acting art Capitalism Classical Music Classics Comedy Concert Contemporary Classical Culture Electronics England Exhibition Feminism Fiction Film Fringe Gender Generations Identity Love Memory Monarchy Monologue Novel Opera Pantomime Photography Politics Poverty Power Race Satire Sexuality Shakespeare Space Theatre Truth War

  Catching up (Part 3)

  April 2020 to December 2020 In which the Tourist condenses down 2020, in and out of lockdown, mostly watching stuff on a screen. Don’t worry he also took walks, saw punters when permitted and growled at the state of his disappointing nation, but it is only now he is back…

  November 5, 2021
• art Bible Culture Drawing Exhibition History Installation Landscaoe London Myths Nature Painting Place Power Prints Sculpture Technology

  Rembrandt’s Light at the Dulwich Picture Gallery (and others) review *****

  Rembrandt’s Light Dulwich Picture Gallery, 17th January 2020 The Tourist has been a bit remiss in keeping up the records on art exhibitions over the last few months so in addition to the above he will offer a few thoughts on other visits. Rembrandt‘s Light first. The DPG exhibition space…

  March 7, 2020
• art Culture Florence History Italy London Performance Renaissance Sexuality Theatre

  Botticelli in the Fire at Hampstead Theatre review **

  Botticelli in the Fire Hampstead Theatre, 20th November 2019 Us pensioners, well nearly in the case of the Tourist, as well as the real-dealers who haunt the matinees at which he largely frequents, are getting our eyes opened in Roxana Silbert’s first season as AD at the HT. Nothing fusty…

  December 18, 2019
• art Ballet Beauty Culture Design Drawing Exhibition London Moscow Opera Painting Paris Prints Russia Textiles

  Natalia Goncharova exhibition at Tate Modern review *****

  Natalia Goncharova Tate Modern, 26th August 2019 Right cards on the table. If I don’t start getting a move on I am never going to catch up in terms of documenting my cultural adventures on this blog, Which would render it even more pointless and too much of a chore.…

  October 11, 2019
• art Biography Culture Exhibition Feminism History Justice London Mew York Painting Performance Power Race Textiles USA

  Faith Ringgold at the Serpentine Galleries review ****

  Faith Ringgold Serpentine Galleries, 22nd August 2019 Once again it has taken the Tourist way too long to gather his thoughts on something he has seen. Which means this snappy retrospective of the work of Africa- American artist has now finished. Sorry. It was Very Good. I guess that doesn’t…

  October 7, 2019
• Amsterdam art Culture Drawing Exhibition London Nature Painting Prints

  Van Gogh and Britain at Tate Britain review ****

  Van Gogh and Britain Tate Modern, 30th July 2019 Took me way ages to find the time to see this. And even longer to comment on it. Really what is the point. Especially as even late afternoon on a weekday it was a bun fight with bugger all chance to…

  September 10, 2019
• Amsterdam Animation art Culture Exhibition History Ideology Installation Politics South Africa Soviet Union Technology

  William Kentridge retrospective at the Eye Film Museum Amsterdam review *****

  William Kentridge – Ten Drawings for Projections, O Sentimental Machine Eye Film Museum, 20th June 2019 The Tourist can’t really be doing with blockbuster art exhibitions in London any more. Too lazy to take the early morning members’ option and too impatient to put up with the crowds of selfie…

  August 4, 2019