by | Mar 7, 2018 | Uncategorised

André Gide’s take on great art and Baudelaire’s 2-line definition: Là, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté, Luxe, calme et volupté [There, all is order and beauty, Luxury, calm, and voluptuousness] In which the inattentive reader sees only a cascade of words, I see the...

by | Feb 16, 2018 | Uncategorised

Kehinde Wiley’s tantalisingly different official portrait of Barack Obama (outshone by his wife)The newest addition to the collection of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery breaks with the tradition of rather stale official portraits to offer a window into the...