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There is an Appendix for Wednesday at this link: https://stevebamlett.home.blog/2023/08/24/diary-of-a-stay-in-edinburgh-part-one-appendix-a-wednesday/ Part 2 is about Peter Howson and on https://stevebamlett.home.blog/2023/08/27/diary-of-a-stay-in-edinburgh-part-two-howsons-art-dr-bendor-grosvenor-britains-best-known-figure-in-the-discipline-known-as-art-connoisseurship-says-of-howson-what-an/ Part 3 will be a continuation and summary of learning in the week from Wednesday. It will include Thursday / Friday. I am starting this diary entry on Tuesday and Geoff and I have been here … More Diary of a stay in Edinburgh (Part One – Saturday to Tuesday):

A blog: Tuesday 15th August 2023: In the Barbershop or staring flatly at it. It is a blog about being invited by Hurvin Anderson to think about art. The 15th August 2023 was a day of artistic discovery for me. Our aim was primarily to visit this exhibition at the Hepworth, for though this was … More A blog: Tuesday 15th August 2023: In the ‘Barbershop’ or staring flatly at it. It is a blog about being invited by Hurvin Anderson to think about art.

A blog: Tuesday 15th August 2023: Lunch with the ideas and forms of Erwin Wurm. In lieu of a catalogue, even a brief list of works exhibited (one is still being prepared, the other being reprinted currently), to accompany the exhibition of Erwin Wurm’s sculptures, it seemed a distinct disadvantage having no prior knowledge of … More A blog: Tuesday 15th August 2023: Lunch with the ideas and forms of Erwin Wurm.

‘Pa believed in ghosting, and so did I. … Sometimes I thought it was more than the game itself’.[1] This blog claims that this debut novel has found a path that reinvents magic realism as a form of writing and makes it work as it should in storytelling, to suggest the dark and unacknowledged in … More BOOKER 2023: ‘Pa believed in ghosting, and so did I’. This is a blog on Chetna Maroo (2023) ‘Western Lane’. Info to agent:  @CamillaElworthy

The Oriental Museum of Durham University is currently staging an exhibition of items and photographs loaned jointly by the Mayors of Hiroshima & Nagasaki in Japan. WARNING: There is disturbing material including photographs in this blog. BUT WE MUST REMEMBER. From the webpage on the exhibition Seeing an exhibition like the one currently on at … More The Oriental Museum of Durham University is currently staging an exhibition of items and photographs loaned jointly by the Mayors of Hiroshima & Nagasaki in Japan. WARNING: There is disturbing material including photographs in this blog. BUT WE MUST REMEMBER.

BOOKER 2023: The female protagonist of The House of Doors, Lesley Hamlyn, confronts the character Willie, representing William Somerset Maughan, near the end of the novel and says to him that he has “never written about a homosexual affair in any of your books. You’ve never even alluded to it in all your stories, not … More BOOKER 2023: Lesley Hamlyn, confronts the character Willie near the end of the novel and says to him that he has “never written about a homosexual affair in any of your books. You’ve never even alluded to it in all your stories, not even once. … And I think you never will. Why risk drawing the beam of that particular light onto yourself”. This is a blog on Tan Twan Eng (2023) ‘The House of Doors’.