Fatherland
If you have a chance to see the film Fatherland by Pawel Pawlikowski, then I strongly recommend it. It’s an amazingly realistic and carefully crafted reconstruction of the visit of Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika to Frankfurt and then Weimar in 1949 to receive Goethe prizes. I don’t know how far it is fiction…
This is Still Not a Pipe
A very brilliant exhibitiin at Gagosian – This is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte. In spite of the disclaimer in the title, Gagosian have managed to borrow a remarkable number of Magrittes, presumably from the Fondation Magritte, which makes it almost a Magritte show with the benefit of additional more recent works,…
A Place to Call Home
I went last night to the opening of a small, but very interesting exhibition in the Senate House Library on the fourth floor of Senate House. As its full title ‘A Place to Call Home: Poverty and Housing in London’ recognises, it is about the history of social housing in London, beginning with the amazing…
