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On a damp mid-week morning last October I visited the Barbican Centre, London to see the Modern Couples Exhibition. I had not been to the Barbican before and found it to be cavernous and very Sixtyish. The exhibition covered nearly 50 modern couples and how they inspired each other in their creative endeavours which helped shape the development of modern art, design and literature in the first half of the 20th century. This was an inventive and creative exhibition so I though

Whilst walking along a desert path in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico I unexpectantly came across an outdoor exhibition of Leonora Carrington’s...

This subject is so large that it will be written over a number of blogs, here is the first. Some years ago, I visited Frida Kahlo’s house...

Although at some point I had planned to visit the Klimt/Schiele* exhibition (Drawings from Albertina Museum, Vienna) at the Royal Academy in London, it was by accident I found myself there on a Friday in November 2018. With leaden skies and a cold wind at Burlington House the atmosphere was bustling and frantic with tickets rationed. The spiral stairway to the Sackler gallery was busy and the lift crammed to capacity. Who and why on a wintry Friday morning so many people made