I was away from home most of last week because of a family crisis and, sorry readers, had to take leave from this blog too for a few days. I returned though to a warm welcome of blue and yellow…
Those six black horses were truly wonderful. I loved the way they resisted pulling the gun carriage as if they would much rather have been somewhere else having fun with a carrot or two. The soldiers looked fine too –…
I’ve been on a couple of trips to London over the last week. First to visit the Royal Academy of Arts’ Manet exhibition, Manet Portraying Life (see Monday and Tuesday blogs below) and, yesterday, I was up there again yesterday…
There is no question now that the death of Margaret Thatcher has been seen as a significant event worldwide. Britain’s only female prime minster and the country’s longest serving premier of the last century, was also Britain’s most controversial leader.…
The Artist: Portrait of Marcellin Desboutin, 1875 (Museu de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brazil) We are more familiar with Manet’s images of women, mostly without their clothes on too, but at the impressive exhibition at London’s Royal Academy…