There was a curious piece in the Independent yesterday, by the paper’s publisher and occasional columnist, Evgeny Lebedev (see above). What I imagined to be a generic, heart-warming defence of eccentricity turned out to be something more confusing.
In Praise of Eccentricity
That Brian Haw Statue
continues to take shape. There’s even a website dedicated to the campaign, which is where I found this picture, a maquette of the proposed statue by Amanda Ward. I like it, especially the visual resonances between it and the statue Haw must have looked at more than any other, that of Churchill, or the ‘old gasbag’ as he liked to call him.
Haw:
Churchill:
Abdulnasser’s Capitol dome
was even taller than I had imagined. Here’s my piece on it for The Washington Post.
And in case that link doesn’t work, here are some more pictures of it:
There’s An Interesting Piece
on Saudi art in today’s Guardian, in advance of the show about to open on Saturday night at the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane, which should be excellent.
Above is one part of Ayman Yossri Daydban’s ‘The Opening’ from his Subtitle series, 2010.
Something v moving about the dustjacket of @simonmontefiore ‘s Jerusalem found amid the wreckage in Banghazi: http://t.co/MBJne41d