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Our little secret – 2

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

When you explain to your girlfriend that your London degree is as good as mine from Oxford, I say nothing, and hope you both think I’m on your side.

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Our little secret – 1

Monday, August 15, 2011

I love taking you to galleries and pretending I don’t ‘get’ the art (while looking at the pashmina girls over your shoulder).

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After Eliot (fragment)

Monday, August 15, 2011

… there is a time for building And a time for living and for generation And a time for East Coker to get a branch of LIDL.

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Maiden voyeur

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Review of Iron Maiden, at the O2. (I did not see that coming.) — For theartsdesk

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At the Rowing Club (or – The truth about sports)

Thursday, June 30, 2011

– I think it’s going to be close! – It’s not going to be close. Either they’re going to win, or we are.

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Other ways of seeing

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

An A-W of (alternative) artistic terminology   Arte Povera – affordable art Brücke, die – German successors to the Fauvists (later disbanded amid accusations of Fauvoritism) colour – the new ‘black’ deconstruction – critic’s hatchet-job Edvard Munch – AaaaaaaaAAAAARRRGHH!! Freud – act of ripping people off Gauguin – one employed in knocking out Tahitian pearl […]

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Graphology (preliminary results)

Monday, June 20, 2011

Man A has the handwriting of an intellectual. Which is to say ‘of a child’. (Which is to say ‘of a child intellectual’. Not ‘an intellectual child’.)

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If your love were true…

Monday, June 20, 2011

I can’t help but feel that at some point in the last two years you’d have learned how to use the conditional tense.

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Musical note

Monday, June 20, 2011

MEMO – start a band called ‘the lower-case Ts’

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15 years of laughing at ‘Art’

Monday, June 13, 2011

Critic (and diarist) ASH Smyth reflects on the pitfalls of modern art, the vagaries of friendship, and the comic role he’s always wanted.   ‘My friend Serge has bought a painting…’  1997. Ish . See ‘Art’, Yasmina Reza’s comedy of mannerism, for the first time (Wyndhams Theatre, London). Show has hit the West End running: […]

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