A new Leonardo da Vinci – wow!
In the art world today, all the noise is about money. Yes, can you believe it? Wow! $450 million or £342 million! Just for an old painting too. Wow! It’s definitely a lot of money and I know I…
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First the Fibonacci Poem and then the Movie
It has been an interesting month for my Fibonacci poetry – first, I’ve had three new poems published in the Fib Review, see yesterday’s post, and now I have seen the splendid animated film that Joseph Nussbaum has made…
My 3 latest Fibonacci Poems are Tales from Ovid’s The Metamorphoses.
Diana and Actaeon (1556 – 1559) by Titian Titian’s great painting of Diana and Actaeon has been one of my favourite paintings ever since I went to the great Titian exhibition at London’s National Gallery. It tells the story of…
Shelley’s Ozymandias is dug up in Cairo
At the weekly on-line poetry event that I host every Thursday, I thought, after seeing those amazing photographs from Egypt, that I had to read the great and resounding sonnet Ozymandias by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley…
Life after Mad Men is like falling off a very tall building.
I’ve just watched the final episode of Mad Men that wonderful American drama series about a Madison Avenue advertising company during the 1960s. It is the latest in a series of brilliantly inventive and original American dramas that have ended…
Alexander McQueen at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum – much more than amazing frocks.
I went to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on Friday and it was enough just to have tea and a glass of wine in the Victorian Gothic tearoom listening to a solitary-looking man playing Cole Porter on a…
My time in Lisbon, Portugal was pure poetry.
I spent a week in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, recently. It was my first time in this interesting country, the only Western European state that I hadn’t visited before. I wasn’t really there on holiday, enjoyable though it was, I…
There are a few of my favourite things in Lisbon’s Gulbenkian Museum.
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon Portugal When I was in Portugal the other week for a poetry workshop, I had a free Sunday and decided to spend it at the impressive Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. This dramatic Modernist building houses…
It was all a mistake: my three inspiring days and two glorious nights in Venice.
It all started last summer when I booked a two week holiday in Venice but let my finger slip on the British Airways website only to find that when I went for my return flight I had mistakenly bought a…
Looking for fine art and finding poetry at Le musée Paul Valéry, Sète
Le musée Paul Valéry, Sète One of my greatest pleasures in travelling is visiting different towns and exploring their art galleries. It was no different on my recent trip to Sète in the south of France and I soon found…