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  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
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  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 Culture Exhibition History London Painting Photography Sculpture Truth War

  Don McCullin exhibition at Tate Britain review ****

  Don McCullin Tate Britain, 1st May 2019 The main event first. The astonishing work of Don McCullin, the renowned “war” photographer, though this epithet doesn’t get close to covering the depth of the work revealed in this retrospective at the Tate, (now finished, sorry). McCullin, now 83, left art college…

  May 14, 2019
• Chamber Music Classical Music Concert Culture Hungary London Photography

  Hungariana: Casals Quartet and Tamara Stefanovich at Milton Court review ****

  Casals Quartet, Tamara Stefanovich (piano), Gerald McBurney (creative director), Amelia Kosminsky (video designer) Hungaria, Milton Court Concert Hall, and 3rd February 2019 Gyorgy Kurtag Six moments musicaux Op 44 Jatekok excerpts Bela Bartok 14 Bagatelles Op 6 String Quartet No 3 Three Burlesques Op 8c Gyorgy Ligeti Etudes excerpts Musica…

  February 19, 2019
• Architecture art Culture Design Exhibition Literature London Love Photography Poetry Sexuality

  Modern Couples at the Barbican Art Gallery review ****

  Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-Garde Barbican Art Gallery, 15th November 2018 Here’s another smart bit of curating from the team at the Barbican, in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou-Metz here led by Jane Alison. Track the history of modernism in art – not just painting, but sculpture, photography,…

  November 30, 2018
• art Culture Exhibition History London Photography Prints War

  Aftermath at Tate Britain review ****

  Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One Tate Britain, 29th August 2018 Historians abhor teleology these days. It’s a tricky business identifying events that “changed the history of the world”. For us simple layfolk though the First World War must surely mark a defining shift in the human…

  September 9, 2018
• art Culture Exhibition Oxford Photography USA

  America’s Cool Modernism at the Ashmolean Museum review ****

  America’s Cool Modernism: O’Keefe to Hopper Ashmolean Museum, 26th June 2018 Those clever people at the Ashmolean in Oxford have come up with another fine exhibition to rank alongside last year’s survey of Modernism in France Creating Modernism in France at the Ashmolean Museum review ****). There are plenty of…

  July 19, 2018
• Culture London Photography Theatre Uncategorized

  Sea Wall at the Old Vic Theatre review

  Sea Wall Old Vic Theatre, 23rd June 2018 I might have told this story before. My memory is failing. A few years ago the SO, BD and LD went to see Groundhog Day at the Old Vic. Terrific film and terrific musical. Made more terrific by the presence of Ben…

  July 13, 2018
• Architecture art Culture Exhibition London Photography Technology

  Andreas Gursky at the Hayward Gallery exhibition review ****

  Andreas Gursky Hayward Gallery, 4th April 2018 Odds are you have seen one of Andreas Gursky’s giant, hypnotic, immersive photographs. He charts the relationship between man and environment, fiddling with perspective, highlighting the repetition of our own industry and locating the beautiful and the ugly, often simultaneously. His viewpoint is…

  April 16, 2018