Railway Eye (Free subscription) | yesterday
... as 'Derby Day' and the 'Railway Station'. UPDATE: This, allegedly and somewhat surprisingly, from Brian Sewell... My dear Fact Compiler My very old and dear chum Leo has committed the most egregious solecism in miss-spelling that minor Victorian painter Frith, noted for his scenes of public venues. May I add in passing how much I was disturbed by the decorated HST power car portrayed...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... of the funeral of the Poet Rupert Brook . It’s of its time (and seems to be narrated by Brian Sewell’s cousin!) but the sound effects and music work well together. If you listen right to the end there is a final twist which adds to the complex nature of remembering the dead of all wars.
Living for pleasure alone... (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... of the funeral of the Poet Rupert Brook . It’s of its time (and seems to be narrated by Brian Sewell’s cousin) but the sound effects and music work well together. If you listen right to the end there is a final twist which adds to the complex nature of remembering the dead of all wars. simple pleasures
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... interpret the films. The art is the most important thing. The films are secondary."The art critic Brian Sewell, however, is dismissive of the idea that Burton's work possessed artistic merit. "I think curators are ill advised and usually wrong," he said. "I don't think there can ever be another Warhol. There could never be anybody who excels at that skilled merchandising of multiples....
This is London (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The paint's the thing for Frank Auerbach By Brian Sewell, Evening Standard 05.11.09 Colour code: Summer Building Site 1952, which Auerbach painted at the age of 21 — “I felt it was the beginning of my life as a painter,” he says Men at work: Building Site Portobello Road Winter, 1954 — labourers take centre stage Look here too , at 78, continues to be presented as, if not quite a “grand...
