Gods and Foolish Grandeur

G and I went to a party for writers last night. A (slightly delayed) solstice party at the Writer's Dojo. (Sounds terribly literary , do...

As simply as I can say it, I think beauty is sufficient reason for a work of art. It doesn't need to do anything else. It doesn't ne...

I'm going to say again - and it won't be for the last time - that I have great respect for my fellow contemporary artists. That I r...

Most artists - and probably anyone else who ponders such things - would say that art is about communication. It may do other things as well,...

I just keep thinking about this dress I saw on the Vintage Textile website. I already included an image of it in a previous post, but I wan...

While I may criticise much of Modern art, contemporary art, for many things - its failure to communicate to the public beyond itself, its pr...

[At the Met in the Eighties. Not always in sync, and there is a fair bit of necessary monitoring of the conductor, but what joy to see these...

This year, at 76, retired from the stage, giving an appreciation of the quiet simplicity of the death of one of opera's greatest heroine...

It may screw with my karma, but I have to admit no small satisfaction that it appears Thomas Kinkade has hit the skids. Born the same year I...

I just happened upon a terrific website: VINTAGE TEXTILES They sell vintage clothing from the eighteenth century through to the Forties and ...