I still remember this as a landmark exhibition. And a Gilbert Spencer show opening this coming weekend at Abbot Hall Gallery.

Anyone wanting to see the sorrows and joys, humour and anger in William Rose’s ‘On the Chopping block: Cooks and Other Paintings’ at Clare Hall, Cambridge, can do so as show extended to March 7 owing to student interest and Varsity review. Clare Hall

An exhibition Royal Academy shows that the Impressionists were never more immediate or intimate than in their drawings, writes Frances Spalding
apollo-magazine.com/impressionists…

Marie Laurencin, a much admired Parisian artist, can sometimes be a bit hit-or-miss, but is beautifully au point in ‘Colette’, a Frenchified Vermeer, acquired by Pallant House Gallery through the Acceptance in Lieu scheme. Yet beyond camera for best effect.

Professor Frances Spalding, Art Committee Chair and Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, will be giving a fascinating talk on 23 February as part of Revolution, the 2024 Darwin College Lecture Series. Read more about Professor Spalding's talk here: clarehall.cam.ac.uk/.../worlds-tur…

Glenn Gould. Bach. Partita n 2. Ontario. 1958.

Am joining Richard Morris's #myfavouritepainting series, throwing in Joan Eardley's July Fields (c.1959). to brighten up the dark days of winter. Painted from the clifftops at Catterline, it has a grand sense of freedom and consolidation.

Starting next week, the Darwin College Lecture Series 2024 is on the theme of REVOLUTION. Eight public lectures, each by a different distinguished speaker, explore this topic from multiple perspectives spanning history, science, philosophy, art and politics.

Dunbar grows increasingly special. Liked the comment about the shortfall in art history.

'At the age of twelve he saved up £8 to buy a Queen Anne desk.'

Frances Spalding (Frances Spalding) on the life and work of the man who created Kettle’s Yard and secured Van Goghs for the Tate

the-tls.co.uk/articles/ways-…

'Snow.' (1908) Athough Egon Schiele returned again and again to the posed naked figure (male and female) he also painted landscapes throughout his working life,creating work that more than a century on, has a fresh, contemporary feel.

A revival of Kathleen Hyndman's constructivist work is on show at Clare Hall, Cambridge, until 11 January 2024. Large paintings and small intense drawings are equally immersive, and in the catalogue Martin Kemp's essay looks at the mathematics in her art.

A picture of Cambridge every day since 2010. (No 5000) Tuesday 5th December 2023.
So here it is - my final picture of uninterrupted daily photographs of Cambridge - 5,000 consecutive posts over 13 years. I’m sure you’ll forgive the fact that it wasn’t taken today but a week ago…

With or without?🌳✖️
What d'you think when you see these 2 images?🤔

Which street would be cooler on a hot day? Would you hear birdsong? Would you enjoy walking? Would cars drive slower? Would you prefer to live on?

We think all streets deserve trees
👉Treesforstreets.org

I love how Shostakovich goes - well ahead of his time - compleeeeetely death metal on yo ass around 7 min 31. 🤘

youtu.be/XF_1ydIA1z4?si…

Learning #Mozart ’s bleak A minor Rondo K511 seems totally appropriate during these very dark days. The major sections give hope, but the overwhelming mood is one of despair. He wrote it in 1787 at the age of 31. ⁦Hyperion Records Ltd⁩

Hugely enjoyed 3 days in Berwick-upon-Tweed, its architecture,seeing the Berwick Burrells in the Barracks, the Anne Redpath exhibition in the Granary Gallery, talking at the Lit Fest, great hospitality, new friends and old friends and hearing Rowan Williams.

Sometimes a garage receipt had to stand in as evidence of residence in Britain for the Windrush generation. Barbara Walker merges faces with punitive demands from the Home Office in her Turner Prize display. Also stand along wall drawings.

Who would want to be the director of the British Museum? Very good stop-the-press Editorial in this month’s Burlington Magazine on the difficulties of running such an important and imperilled institution.