Although I’ve read thousands of books during the various lockdowns this week, I’ve also found time to engage with Masterchef Australia. I was planning to write a conceptually overambitious and ultimately meandering book review, but my mind turns instead to … Continue reading The Fat Ducks, Newburyport
●●●○○ “I hate the moshers, the squashers, the sploshers, or at least the ones, who seem not to understand rhythm, those who, unlike me, are not good at it, at rhythm. More than that, the ones who take no … Continue reading Black MIDI // Review a new sound for a new millennium
Flann O’Brien was born in Strabane, Tyrone, on October 5th, 1911, and died in Dublin on April 1st, 1966. But that brief account of his life probably doesn’t do it justice, so we’ll have to start again. In the opinion … Continue reading Flann O’Brien Lives Originally Published in Print April 2019
●●●●● Born at 23 Merrion Square and educated in Dublin, Freiburg and Paris, Mary Swanzy (1882-1978) was the first Irish artist to adopt and adapt the Cubist technique. Working at almost exactly the same time as Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), whom … Continue reading Mary Swanzy: A Voyage No Longer Overlooked IMMA’s retrospective of the Irish Cubist is a revelation