It’s an interesting thing, travelling to the Middle East. I’ve done it a few times in recent years, and the countries I have so far been to (Israel, UAE, Oman, Palestine and now Jordan) have at the same time confirmed and subverted my expectations. Edward Said’s seminal 1978 work Orientalism really resonated with me when I first […]
I intend to go back to this exhibition again before it closes. Not because I loved it so much I just have to (this remains to be seen) but because the main drawbacks I found with this exhibition were organisational and design constraints: too many people, wall texts too hard to read and not enough […]
This is an exhibition with a very good starting point: a successful and creative businessman, buffeted by the vagaries of 20th Century history, whose story illustrates a much wider narrative. Plus that of a granddaughter (Anne Sinclair), public figure, painted by major artists as a child, and now author of a successful history of her […]
