A while ago I happened across the wonderful Gandini jugglers. Looking them up I found that their next performance was in Birmingham on 26 August (2012). Armed with my new senior railcard, I went up to see their whole show ‘Smashed’. Here are a few video clips from that performance. Totally wonderful. Although that’s what…
[singlepic id=154 w=320 h=240 float=left] Some of the rarest and most exquisite works of art in London can be found not at the major galleries, but at Christie’s or Sotheby’s. Exhibitions here can be fleeting, and unique, as great masters pass from one super-rich owner to another. This weekend only, at Sotheby’s there is a…
In the 20 years before the first world war, Hungary produced an extraordinarily high proportion of the worlds greatest ever photographers. Robert Capa, Brassaï, André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy, and Martin Munkácsi, were all Hungarian, and all born between 1894 and 1913. Their work and history is shown in a seminal exhibition at the Royal Academy, which I urge…
