From The New Yorker

Does anybody really know you? It’s a question that arises at odd moments—sometimes, perversely, when we’re surrounded by people who know us well. Suddenly, we become conscious of an inner sanctum they’ve never breached. We might perceive ourselves as lost, abandoned, as though we’re passing through the world unnoticed. We feel many variations of a …

The Watts’s genius

4th March 2024 A visit to Watts gallery in Compton (Surrey that is, not California) reminded me that the legacy was about both George Watts and his second wife Mary, more than thirty years his junior. That legacy was primarily aesthetic and spiritual, and not merely painterly. But it was also proto-socialist as the Watts …

Podcast Episode 61: The Men’s Room Edition

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/justin-dix/episodes/Ep-61-The-Mens-Room-Episode-e2fhld7 Intro This is Episode 61 of the weekly Eyecatching Words podcast, published on the 7th February 2024. Music Openings Hello and welcome to the Eyecatching Words podcast.  This is your weekly aural (spelt with an “au”) magazine with news, features and music from deep in the heart of the UK, as seen by a …