The third destination of our Met Museum art extravaganza was Beyond the Light - Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish…
A wander crosstown to the Met with a destination. Or rather three. The first - Water Memories - explores water’s significance…
So much gloom, doom, and disaster that it's important to find counterbalances. Here are a few recent bright spots. Glasgow…
I've been thinking about how we need to stop using the word "gender" to refer to people and why we…
Yesterday I took my stickybeaking self downtown to City Hall Park where Standing for Women was holding an event. You…
Gloomy drizzly start for today so time to remember some recent sunshine and shadows. Covid-19 testing tents are all up…
Summer in the City Hot town, summer in the city Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty Been down,…
Raw, cold, and damp but it's still good to get out. Thanks to the ongoing lurgy there are no social…
The sun shining ... just there in the sky like a force-ripe orange That striking image is from Samuel Selvon's…
This is actually a story about books but somehow the schools took over. It does start with the books -…
Decomposition I have a picture I took in Bombay of a beggar asleep on the pavement: grey-haired, wearing shorts and…
Buy local. If you live in a city, town or village you probably appreciate the local amenities. These include the…
Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today is moving to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris but you…
A few November snowflakes and the hits on my all-time most-read post start climbing the "Most Read This Week" list.…
Here again - for the summer solstice - are those Wittenham Clumps. By the early 1940s Nash’s was in declining…