Last week we celebrated the festive season at the Dovetail Belgian bar in Clerkenwell with heaps of roast potatoes washed down with lashings of Chimay.
Caption:
Alfons Mucha: Bières de la Meuse, c. 1897
Peissenberg, Artothek
We were on the South Bank this weekend, searching for Christmas presents.
Caption:
THORNBACK & PEEL
STUDIO W11
COCKPIT ARTS
COCKPIT YARD
NORTHINGTON ST
LONDON. WC1N 2NP
020 72427478
It’s been a damp and dreary week. I love this photo - never has damp and dreary looked so good. It reminds me of a poem in an anthology I had when I was little:
I like the town on rainy nights
When everything is wet -
When all the town has magic lights
And streets of shining jet!
Caption:
Exposition: New York et l’Art moderne, Alfred Stieglitz et son cercle, 1905-1930
Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Octobre 2004-Janvier 2005.
EDWARD J. STEICHEN (1879-1973)
The Flat Iron, 1904
Épreuve à la gomme bichromatée bleu-vert sur papier préparé au palladium / 25,2 x 32,1 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
© Photo The Metropolitan Museum of Art
© Permission of Joanna T. Steichen / Carousel, 2004
© R.M.N., Paris 2004
Over the weekend we went to a wedding in Derry. We didn’t have time for culture, but we ate, drank and were merry.
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Derry-Londonderry has made history after winning its bid to be the first ever UK City of Culture in 2013. The momentous win means that in 2013 Derry-Londonderry will play host to a year-long celebration of culture in the city, opening its doors to visitors from across the world. The old walled city lies on the west bank of the River Foyle, and the present city now covers both banks (Cityside to the west and Waterside to the east) and is connected by two bridges.
Happy Halloween! I don’t really like Halloween, but I have nonetheless made a jack o’lantern out of an orange and am wearing an unsightly pair of novelty socks with a spider-web motif.
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03-B11106 / Edvard Munch, 1863-1944
Geschrei (The Scream) (1895)
lithograph, .483 x .388 m (19 x 15 1/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Rosenwald Collection 1943.3.9038
© NGA
I wish I could say I’d chosen this postcard because I spent the last week building a model of the Clayton Estate out of wine corks. However, it’s actually because I took the unprecedented step of entering a travel-writing competition, and I wrote about West Cornwall - particularly the joy of sitting in the late afternoon sun with a view of St Michael’s Mount and a pint of Doom Bar.
Caption:
The Cork Castle - a model made out of
champagne corks in the 1930’s.
by the butler, Henry Lee.
