Monthly Archives: February 2019

Beatle Haircut Forgery?

Posted on February 5, 2019 by JMN

National Gallery’s 1450 portrait by Rogier van der Weyden was created in the 1960s by Eric Hebborn, says art historian. … Wright ridicules the haircut of the figure who is reading a text that is “gobbledegook” – “an impossibility for … Continue reading →

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Bauhaus

Posted on February 5, 2019 by JMN

For years, the roster of Bauhaus luminaries — such as Gropius, Mies, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee — was seen as exclusively male; recently, the contributions (as well as marginalization) of its brilliant women designers — such as Gunta Stölzl … Continue reading →

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A Quaint Plaint Spoken to the Wind

Posted on February 5, 2019 by JMN

Sombrerismo is a spurious derivative coinage hatched by a cheeky blogger from the Spanish word for “hat” (sombrero). This etiquette-challenged perversion may be a sub-attribute of machismo, a term more familiar to the anglophone community. A man commits sombrerismo when … Continue reading →

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Jake Bugg

Posted on February 5, 2019 by JMN

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Sleaford Mods

Posted on February 5, 2019 by JMN

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The Wave Pictures

Posted on February 5, 2019 by JMN

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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Posted on February 5, 2019 by JMN

He was especially admired by Seurat and Gauguin, and also Cézanne, and later, Matisse and Picasso as well as the perennially underestimated American Maurice Prendergast. In their works and that of many others, you’ll find different combinations of Puvis’s carefully … Continue reading →

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“The Artist’s Way”

Posted on February 5, 2019 by JMN

With “The Artist’s Way,” Julia Cameron invented the way people renovate the creative soul… She will tell you that she has good boundaries. But like many successful women, she brushes off her achievements, attributing her unlooked-for wins to luck. “If … Continue reading →

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Fretwork

Posted on February 5, 2019 by JMN

I’ve been introduced by a friend to two good bands. One is the Wave Pictures from Wymeswold, England near Loughborough in Leicestershire. For persons unfamiliar with Anglo-Celtic phonetic toponymy, Wymeswold is pronounced Maudlin, Loughborough is pronounced Chumley, and Leicestershire is pronounced Leicestershire. … Continue reading →

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A Copy Editor’s Quibbles

Posted on February 4, 2019 by JMN

nyti.ms/2DOiA9C And there are the words Dreyer currently dislikes most, even more than he dislikes “munch” and “nosh” and other distasteful eating-adjacent terms. Sitting recently in his book-crammed office at Penguin Random House, where he is vice president, executive managing … Continue reading →

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