High Society
I am unashamedly besotted with The Gilded Age, the sumptuous HBO costume drama set in New York in the last two decades of the 19th...
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gailbrown432
Feb 214 min read
Yellow Fever **New Talk Dates**
We’re told to never judge a book by its cover but in the 1890s, you certainly could. And if that cover was yellow, you were in for a...
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gailbrown432
Oct 7, 20233 min read
**New Talk Date** Renaissance Women: wives, patrons, painters
“Do you really believe... that everything historians tell us about men - or about women - is actually true? You ought to consider the...
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gailbrown432
Jul 12, 20234 min read
Cloud Busting
Last month I attended a talk at the Arc in Winchester to accompany their small but perfectly formed exhibition that focuses on the dark...
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gailbrown432
Jun 7, 20234 min read
This Mortal Coil
The Motive and the Cue at the National Theatre is a play about putting on a play. That play is the 1964 Broadway production of Hamlet. It...
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gailbrown432
Apr 19, 20233 min read
New York Minutes
Last month, I visited the Barbican to see the large and impressive retrospective of the work of Alice Neel. It is the first exhibition...
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gailbrown432
Jan 23, 20235 min read
Up, Up and Away
We are all, I think, captivated by the myth of Icarus - the compulsion to defy the elements, to pit our wits against the forces of...
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gailbrown432
Dec 19, 20223 min read
Flying in League with the Night
On a visit to London last week, I was keen to tick off a number of exhibitions that had been stacking up on my list. The one that made an...
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gailbrown432
Sep 3, 20222 min read
**Talk Dates ** The Dark Arts
"He had a dark complexion and dark eyes and his eyebrows and hair were black: this colouring was naturally reflected in his paintings"...
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gailbrown432
Jul 25, 20222 min read
Dante's Footsteps
Santa Margherita dei Cerchi, or Dante’s Church Approached off the via Dante, on the other side of the street to Casa Dante - itself a...
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gailbrown432
Jul 20, 20223 min read
"An Earthly Paradise"
Walking north from the Duomo’s entrance you can soon see, dominating the street like a stately cruise liner in port, the imposing,...
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gailbrown432
Jul 13, 20223 min read
Florentine Notes #2
Just over the Ponte Vecchio, on the Oltrarno side of the city, is the church of Santa Felicita, believed to be the second oldest church...
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gailbrown432
Jun 28, 20223 min read
Florentine Notes
If you are travelling to Tuscany over the summer and thinking of visiting Florence for a day or two, there are plenty of knockout works...
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gailbrown432
May 2, 20222 min read
** Talk Dates ** Say It With Flowers
I have just returned from a trip to Florence - my favourite city - where I managed to visit the Iris Gardens. These gardens open, free of...
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gailbrown432
Mar 22, 20224 min read
In The Pink
What to do or say at times like these? Keeping our hearts open and embracing moments of joy, however small, feels important. My daughter...
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gailbrown432
Feb 21, 20225 min read
Marking Time
“We are shaped by the sound of wind, the slant of sunlight” Barry Lopez A friend of mine is helping to plant a wood. It is an initiative...
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gailbrown432
Jan 12, 20222 min read
**Talk Dates ** Winter Wonderlands
One of my favourite poems is The Journey of the Magi by T. S. Eliot. I read it at the beginning of every year and I am always struck by...
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gailbrown432
Jan 1, 20221 min read
Learning from Life
How are you starting 2022? Why not start with art? “We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a...
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gailbrown432
Nov 25, 20213 min read
The Man Who Wasn't There
I'm a great fan of the warm humour, infused with a love of the countryside, that is found in The Detectorists. Shown on the BBC, over...
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gailbrown432
Nov 9, 20212 min read
A Life in Art
I went to the cinema at the weekend, for the first time in two years, to see the latest film by Wes Anderson called The French Dispatch....
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