This is a follow-up blog to one introducing my day trip: https://livesteven.com/2024/02/21/a-day-visit-to-visit-on-21st-february-2024-to-london-to-the-courtaulds-charcoal-heads-by-frank-auerbach-to-the-haywards-when-forms-come-alive/ It will itself be followed up by one on When Forms Come Alive, an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, Southbank. https://livesteven.com/2024/02/24/this-is-blog-is-about-seeing-the-hayward-gallerys-sculpture-exhibition-on-21st-january-2024-when-forms-come-alive/ 7‘… evocative of a wider post-war society emerging from a long period of death and destruction, had left Auerbach himself an orphan … More This is blog is about seeing Auerbach’s ‘Charcoal Heads’ exhibition on 21st January 2024 at the Courtauld Gallery.

Diary blog: A day visit to visit on 21st February 2024 to London to The Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House exhibition of Charcoal Heads by Frank Auerbach and to the Hayward modern sculpture exhibition, When Forms Come Alive. This is the Introduction blog to one introducing my day trip: For other parts use links here: Part 2: … More A day visit to visit on 21st February 2024 to London to The Courtauld’s ‘Charcoal Heads’ by Frank Auerbach & to the Hayward’s ‘When Forms Come Alive’.

…, j’échouais partout et il fallait trouver un type d’existence dans lequel un corps et une histoire comme les miens auraient été possibles, c’est tout” (translated by John Lambert as “…, I was failing everywhere and I had to find a type of existence in which a body and story like mine would be possible, … More This is a blog on Édouard Louis ‘Changer: méthode’ (2021) (‘Change’ (2024) but literally ‘To Change: Method’).

Part 1 of this two-part blog about Andrew Scott’s achievement in enacting all the multiple personae of Vanya. In this part 1, I prepare myself, by examining the audacious text of the Stephens screenplay, to see Andrew Scott perform all the roles of this play, as it was intended one actor would, in the streamed … More Part 1 of a two-part blog which aims to talk about Andrew Scott’s achievement in enacting all the multiple personae of ‘Vanya’, as aspects of the solitary and solipsistic self, perhaps. (Part 1 is about preparing myself for the novelties of the Simon Stephens’ text).

In Andrew McMillan’s Pity (2024) personal memories and socio-political histories meld so much that they are perfectly expressed in the same metaphors, as concerned with that which, ‘came back to him every so often, when the wheel of memory dredged it up and brought it into the light and then sunk it down inside of … More This is a blog on Andrew McMillan (2024) ‘Pity’ Edinburgh, Canongate Books.

‘I open my mouth to tell him he’s wrong. That he’s talking in tongues. Though no words come out. Nothing hitchhiking on my breath. Truth is troublesome like that’.[1] This is a blog on the second ground-breaking queer novel by Jon Ransom (2024) The Gallopers London, The Muswell Press. For my blog on Jon Ransom’s … More ‘I open my mouth to tell him he’s wrong. That he’s talking in tongues. Though no words come out. Nothing hitchhiking on my breath. Truth is troublesome like that’. This is a blog on the second queer novel by Jon Ransom (2024) ‘The Gallopers’.

A day in Edinburgh with Prints and Photographs: Exhibitions in National Galleries of Scotland: (3) Making Space for a Reason. But what reason? (Part 3 [FINAL PART] of Edinburgh blog). For Part 1: A day in Edinburgh with Prints and Photographs: Exhibitions in National Galleries of Scotland: (1) Introduction; use this link. For Part 2: A … More A day in Edinburgh with Prints and Photographs: (3) Making Space for a Reason. But what reason?