A Long Scarf and Leather Trousers, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. I made a few self-portraits outside my house yesterday, and what you see in this picture is a very long grey scarf that I...
The Guardian and Tate have today initiated a discussion – half based on Twitter – about Turner vs. the Old Masters. David Solkin, the curator at Tate, walked a Guardian journalist through ...
Memorably Robed , originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. I am reading Sigmund Freud’s Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious. And the first literary example Freud uses, which was popular a...
First of all, I want to assure those who found it hard to get by without any posts on this blog that I will make sure that I don’t leave you with nothing to read for a week again. My Internet se...
My photo of one of the musical angels in Manchester Cathedral has just been invited to the group Anges Musiciens (‘musical angels’ in French). I thought I’d point to it those who lov...
I wrote previously that I went to Futuresonic 2009. There will be another Futuresonic related announcement here in the next day or two; also Futuresonic now arrives rebranded as Future Everything, and...
If you type in Google “jeff koons made in heaven“, you will find a site with lots of images that I dare watch but not post to this blog (yet). Apart from those, Jeff Koons, the famous Amer...
I noticed that Flickr link in my Lijit widget wasn’t working. I corrected it but I thought I’d use the opportunity to give you a peek at my “private” Flickr life. I started usi...
Some of you will instantly recognise a paraphrase of the title of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa in the post’s title. I remember reading it in about 1998 in Moscow. I was ...
Life on Saturn in Llangollen, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. I hope the title of the post is the obvious hint at Breakfast on Pluto. I’ve recently watched the film with the Russian ...