Homage to Ganesha
Ganesha is the elephant-headed god of the Hindu pantheon, a popular figure in Indian art and the subject of Homage …
Category Archives: Exhibitions
Adam Buck, Artist in the Age of Jane Austen (and others)
Dear Miss Austen would, I venture to suggest, have been amused, nay, scandalised by the decision of The Ashmolean Museum …
Meadow sweet
A couple of weeks ago, I managed to catch The Arts & Crafts House exhibition at Compton Verney House in …
A Japanese artist in India
Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950) was, as one of my fellow visitors put it, “a Japanese bloke wot went to India”. Whilst …
Mermaid
Managed to catch Mermaid, the latest production from the Shared Experience theatre company, at Oxford Playhouse last Friday. Other highlights …
Quick trip to the library
The library in question being the revamped New Bodleian, now known as The Weston Library. Still a ghastly concrete box …
Songs of innocence
A painting of Covent Garden Market in the late 18th century is the first thing to greet visitors to the …
Compton Verney House
Compton Verney House is one of those places that I’ve been meaning to go to for years, but never quite …
Bejewelled
On Friday I went down to the Museum of London . The original plan had been to see the Sherlock …
British Library – April 2013
A couple of weeks ago I went down to London with a friend to see the A-Z of Murder in …
After Work 