By CHENDY BLOG Wednesday, January 22, 2014 Art Auden Bruegel Film Michelangelo Rembrandt Vienna Hallucinations of the Real Jem Cohen's Museum Hours is a quiet film. At times it's almost silent. The 'hours' to which its title refers – as well as t...
By CHENDY BLOG Saturday, January 18, 2014 Art Bedford London Oxford Palmer Piper Mysterious Shadows Leaving London to live in Bedford last August , I mourned the loss of the immediacy of the city's art galleries. I was going to miss the...
By CHENDY BLOG Saturday, December 14, 2013 Art Books Isherwood Philipp Blom Proust Russia Sander Schiele Sebald The Best of 2013... in Books 1. A Place in the Country by W.G. Sebald (Hamish Hamilton) A bittersweet reminder of the glories of Sebald, perhaps the most important cultu...
By CHENDY BLOG Thursday, December 12, 2013 Art Munch Oslo 'Happy' 150th Birthday Munch Today marks the 150th birthday of the Norwegian visionary Edvard Munch. Like many of his generation, Munch sought truth, the raw truth of em...
By CHENDY BLOG Saturday, September 28, 2013 Art Freud Mahler Music National Gallery Vienna Tension Lines In today's Independent on Sunday , ahead of the National Gallery's Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900 , I ponder whethe...