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Chagall

A blog entry about the Chagall Retrospective at the Brussels Museum of Fine Art, and about memory, colour and light with a side step to the Tudeley windows.

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Crystal clear

A review of The Story of English in 100 Words by David Crystal – 100 words, 100 short essays about each word its history and context.

Besides words there is always dance

Dance is an art-form that exists, like photography, alongside words. A meditation on dance and a brief review of two performances that were part of the 2014 Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival (GDTF).

Iain Banks

The author Iain Banks (aka Iain M Banks) died, age 59, on Sunday 9th June 2013. A witty, intelligent and very able writer of “mainstream” and SF, as well as a defender of humanism, in all senses of that word.