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Saturday, 4 June 2011

The Image is the Not the Object

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It is three years to the month since I first visited my piece at the V&A and it is still in store, in the same place but this time th...
Sunday, 13 March 2011

Launch Lecture for The Image of the Black in Western Art 2nd Ed

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I had the great pleasure of attending the sell out lecture - Friday 25 February , - to launch the second edition of The Image of the Bla...
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Sunday, 26 December 2010

Three Sub-Saharan African Magi - An African Adoration

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Les Rois Mages - The three Wise Men (Mt 2,1) (1 ) My Christmas card this year came from a print on my Mum’s wall. It is the Adora...
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Sunday, 19 September 2010

Black In the Raphael Tapestries for Sistine Chapel ?

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I had the great pleasure of seeing the Raphael Cartoons and Tapestries on show at the V&A to celebrate the Pope’s visit.I was even m...
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Sunday, 6 December 2009

Blacks still under warps even at the new V&A MedRen Wing

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I was very disappointed to find on my first visit to the V&A’s new Medieval and Renaissance wing only to find the one piece I really wa...
Friday, 4 December 2009

The V& A's MedRen Wing and Obama Style Sponsorship

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The Victoria and Albert Museum new Medieval and Renaissance Gallery is visually stunning, stupendous and sensational but is totally lacking...
Saturday, 20 December 2008

Dürer's 1504 Black Magus and a 1904 copy

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The tradition of the black magus seems to be very much alive to this day. I was in Germany  last week attending my company’s Christmas Party...