Thursday, 27 Sep 2018, 09:40Edited by Steve Bamlett, Thursday, 27 Sep 2018, 10:07 Ribera’s Nudes –Men Penetrated by Pain: Ribera: Art of Violence Dulwich Picture Gallery (opening 26th September 2018. How does the thesis that in the renaissance the nude male was associated with heroic violent interaction between men fare if we look at a key Baroque … More Ribera’s Nudes –Men Penetrated by Pain:
Friday, 5 Oct 2018, 20:29Edited by Steve Bamlett, Wednesday, 10 Oct 2018, 22:20 A queer approach to sexual preference labelling in art-history (Queer theory and Interdisciplinary Histories): Intermezzo. Reflecting on: Callen, Anthea (2018) Looking At Men: Anatomy, Masculinity and the Modern Male Body. New Haven & London, Yale University Press Coming across this kind of excellent scholarly … More Queer theory and Interdisciplinary Histories: Callen, Anthea (2018) ‘Looking At Men’:
Wednesday, 21 Nov 2018, 16:58Edited by Steve Bamlett, Tuesday, 11 Dec 2018, 15:19 Observing a Curator’s Tour: Laing Gallery with Curator Amy Barker regarding her curation of Exposed: The Naked Portrait on 21st November 2018 The purpose of this reportage is to think about art-curatorship following a reading of O’Neill’s (2016:42ff) history of curatorial discourse since the late … More Observing a Curator’s Tour: Laing Gallery with Curator Amy Barker regarding her curation of Exposed: The Naked Portrait on 21st November 2018
Laing Art Gallery ‘The Enchanted Interior’ Exhibition First visit 30th October 2019 https://laingartgallery.org.uk/whats-on/the-enchanted-interior See beautiful catalogue too Madeleine Kennedy [ED.] (2019) The Enchanted Interior Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Laing Art Gallery. A first visit is a chance to face the fact that an exhibition of this size and nuance will always overwhelm this viewer at the least. I … More Laing Art Gallery ‘The Enchanted Interior’ Exhibition First visit 30th October 2019 https://laingartgallery.org.uk/whats-on/the-enchanted-interior
Exhibition on Screen, Leonardo: The Works (Review) https://exhibitiononscreen.com/films/leonardo-the-works/ I’m usually a great fan of these EOS films. It allows you to see the paintings close up & in detail and this film gives the same excellent service. The director bases it on Martin Kemp’s latest Leonardo book (my old review here) and, given the latter’s … More Exhibition on Screen, “Leonardo: The Works” (Review) https://exhibitiononscreen.com/films/leonardo-the-works/
Sunday, 1 Jul 2018, 17:16Visible to anyone in the world Truth-telling in Art-History Reviewing Kemp, Martin (2018) Living with Leonardo: Fifty years of Sanity and Insanity in the Art World and Beyond London, Thames & Hudson. I can’t get over the feeling that this is an ‘old-fashioned’ book. After a year on a MA in Art History … More Truth-telling in Art-History Reviewing Kemp, Martin (2018) ‘Living with Leonardo’
Dorian by Andrew McMillan Proper Job Theatre at Hexham Queen’s Hall Sometimes one feels for theatre companies with the obvious commitment of Proper Job. When their presentation of Andrew McMillan’s play took place in Hexham, the theatre was surrounded by one of the noisiest fairs I have ever heard and seen, the showpiece of Hexham’s … More ‘Dorian’ by Andrew McMillan Proper Job Theatre at Hexham Queen’s Hall 26th Oct. 2019
Reviewing ‘An Introduction to Zurbaran’ @aucklandproject This event is hopefully the first of a series of talks growing out of the Bishop Auckland Project and the transformation of this town into a capital of culture. This one was an introduction to the life and work of Francisco de Zurbaran. We were also introduced to a … More Reviewing ‘An Introduction to Zurbaran’ @aucklandproject 24th October 2019
I’m hoping this is helpful but I wanted to state first of all that personally I don’t believe in giving great value to mental health diagnosis in providing support to people with issues related to mental health amongst whom I include myself. They can help with a formulation of mental health issues but their dangers … More From Bipolar to BPD: Diagnostics
For Bomberg being ‘Partizan’ took the self-identifying form of the masses representing the Jewish diaspora. Bomberg’s criss-cross-patterns ‘over the surface of a page’ represent the violence and excitement of diaspora Whitechapel as much as stylistic innovation focused upon by a Leeds City Gallery curator.[1] Jewish Theatre (1913-14) is ‘a violent image’,[2] eschewing ‘harmony’ and ‘unity’ … More An extract from writing on vorticism & crowds.
Leila Aboulela (2019) Bird Summons London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson Training to read literary fiction involves a kind of detection of the texts that constitute the conversation between genres, periods and sociocultural phenomena that is taking place in the interstices of any one single text before us – in the transitions between narrative forms and styles … More Leila Aboulela (2019) ‘Bird Summons’ London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Hearing/seeing Raymond Antrobus – Durham Book Festival Laureate 12th October 2019 This was an evening of illuminations. Did I miss a lot by following in my copy of the poems from The Perseverance (2018)? Watching the newer poems, I know I did, because here sign languages come into their own and open up the world … More Hearing/seeing Raymond Antrobus – Durham Book Festival Laureate 12th October 2019
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