50 Years of the Sainsbury Art Collection at UEA
After the pandemic, museum curators claimed that they had to find a new way to tempt the public to view their wares. Albeit on smaller budgets and with the disappearance of patrons with suspect backgrounds in drugs or oil.(...)
Three London Shows
Last week was the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Stephen Lawrence. People of my generation wince with pain when his name is mentioned.(...)
Portraits of Dogs and The Queen and Her Corgis
For those of us who grew up on the island that is the United Kingdom, there were places that represented for us lovers of Europe a deeper connection with the longed-for-continent.(...)
Keith Gessen’s A Terrible Country
Keith Gessen’s A Terrible Country is based on a year he spent in Moscow looking after his elderly grandmother who was suffering from dementia. It is a remarkable and absorbing book that charts the author’s complicated relationship with all things Russian.(...)