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London 27 Oct 2024
Van Gogh: poets and lovers
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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 …
London Street Photography 28th September 2024
EW 65: Genius and Contentment
Introduction: Eyecatching’s new direction You may have noticed that I’ve become erratic of late, for which I apologise (particularly to those of you who like structure and like to stick to it). But the fact is that what I want to say and how often I want to say it is not really something that …
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 …
EW 64: You shall not pass
28th February 2024 In this week’s Eyecatching Words: Shamima Begum: evil or abandoned? The next government: A bitter inheritance or a golden opportunity? Islamophobia? What’s that then? Trident: Faking it Lord of the Rings cosplay The millennium bug - 24 years later Bollocks to that Just a reminder that Eyecatching Words is also available as …
EW63: Don’t panic
In this week’s Eyecatching Words I’ll be covering the usual news and absurdities of life, and in particular focusing on the transformation of the BT Tower, rituals associated with Hindu houses, a new exhibition of the artist Frank Auerbach, people watching at Gatwick, and the need not to panic when confronted with information overload. > …
Eyecatching Words Weekly 62: The Yorkshire Edition
In this week’s EW, I will be giving my usual views on the news, setting out why I think we need to get rid of Trident, and taking a visit to the the Village of Steep in Hampshire and its famous local pub The Harrow. The main feature this week is a visit to Yorkshire …
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