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A Couple Of Questions About WordPress Itself

First of all has anyone else had any problems with clicking on links within WordPress? For example, if I’m in Reader and I want to read a post in full, if I click on the post half the time I … Continue reading

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Snippets From The Torygraph

There were a couple of art items in yesterday’s Daily Torygraph. In the Obits section (my sister is worried because I look at the obituaries and thinks I need to ‘get a life’) there was a piece about the death … Continue reading

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Where I’m Going Wrong!

I’ve figured it out!! Recently I came across this self portrait by L S Lowry whose major exhibition at the Tate opens next week. Then I saw a photograph of Picasso. But when I saw Denis Whiteside (who I mentioned in my … Continue reading

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Meanwhile in the North in 2013… Part 1 – Greater Manchester

OK, I mean North of England! Having said that, I have enjoyed a couple of trips to Edinburgh to see exhibitions and was annoyed recently when a discovered a Rembrandt exhibition a week before it finished in Glasgow so didn’t … Continue reading

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100 (or 20 of them, at least) for 2013

Today’s Seven in the Sunday Telegraph had “2013 – The 100 Things You Should Know”, a nine-page preview of the arts in 2013. It included theatre, TV, music, dance and so on, but I’m extracting the visual arts exhibitions. (As … Continue reading

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Exhibitions I’ve been to and ….

On my way to Hot Bed Press to do some printing recently I popped into Salford Museum and Art Gallery to see what was on. I was pleased to find that “Life and Times of a War Time Art Student, … Continue reading

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Annie Lennox’s Cabinet of Curiosities

As I said, I was at Salford Quays on Monday taking photos for my Salford Quays series of screenprints when I wandered into the Lowry to see the House of Annie Lennox exhibition. While the exhibition had a wall of … Continue reading

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Chris Nash – the New Degas?

Last week I printed some images of the Imperial War Museum North which is at Salford Quays. (I loaded them up to my website last night.) I was quite pleased with how they turned out so I’ve decided to do … Continue reading

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