Category: art
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Visit to the Walker Art Gallery
Teaching at Edge Hill gave me my first opportunity to take students on a field trip – we went to the Walker Art Gallery, where Elizabeth Newell, a blue badge guide from Liverpool Tour Guide Services, took us round several of the galleries. Obviously, we concentrated on the sixteenth and seventeenth century galleries, because that’s…
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Parr Family History
As we have seen, William Elderton’s emphasis on the exemplary feminine virtues of his heroine in A proper new balad of my ladie marques, Whose death is bewailed To the tune of new lusty gallant is line with the norms of the Renaissance epitaph. But in Elizabeth Parr’s case it is especially interesting. It reflects…
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Ballads Across Borders
Over the last few months I have been privileged to give some lectures for Sovereign Education, who provide study days for A-level students. The two most recent lectures were on the subject of ‘the King’s Great Matter’. Sadly, there were no ballads involved, but at least I got to talk about Henry VIII, Catherine of…
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Lyndal Roper and news
I’ve spent a lot of time in the company of Luther in the last few days, courtesy of Professor Lyndal Roper and Manchester’s Dr Jenny Spinks. Prof Roper’s seminar on Thursday evening described Luther’s polemical writing as an expression of his masculinity, but surprised many of the audience with his scatology and lewdness. On Friday…
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Andre Amador’s Playa Paintings are Sandy Works of Art
These are just gorgeous, so I felt the need to share. Andre Amador’s Playa Paintings are Sandy Works of Art.
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Art Everywhere
Fittingly, the first Art Everywhere poster that I saw was the Pelican Portrait of Elizabeth I! It was on the concourse of Oxford Station. Then on the way home from the Cotswolds we stopped at a motorway service station and saw the Ambassadors, Blaze 4, For You and Whistlejacket. Apparently my husband and children saw…
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Art Everywhere turns UK’s streets into world’s largest art show | Art and design | theguardian.com
Art Everywhere turns UK’s streets into world’s largest art show | Art and design | theguardian.com. Today’s Guardian has a free guide to the art works and on the website, a gallery.
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Help Us To Curate the World’s Biggest Art Show – Art Everywhere
Help Us To Curate the World’s Biggest Art Show – Art Everywhere. What a brilliant idea. I am SO impressed and I really hope I see some of these around. Lovely, of course, to see the Pelican Portrait of Queen Elizabeth and the Ambassadors in there, but I’m quite taken with Cold Dark Matter: An…
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Day Trip to London
Today I’ve been to London and back for a meeting of the branches and members committee of the Historical Association. We finished earlier than expected so I spent an hour and a half in the British Museum. I had a look round the Mexican gallery, as always, as I wrote my undergraduate dissertation on the…
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‘The Lady With the Headache…’
I swear that if I hear myself described as ‘the lady with the headache’ once more, I’m going to scream. Actually, I probably won’t, because it would hurt, but inwardly at any rate, I’d be doing a Munch. The word ‘headache’ alone doesn’t begin to describe it. Forget migraine, I’ve had them and this…
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