Holdovers: Belated January additions to my best of 2023.

Posted on by Geoff Andrew

Somewhat belated happy New Year!  At the end of 2023, as usual, I posted about my best movies, music, etc, of that year. I mentioned there my uncertainty about whether Nitai Herszhkovits’ Call on the old wise should have made my top five jazz/folk/other CDs. For what it's worth, I’m still undecided about that (should … Continue reading Holdovers: Belated January additions to my best of 2023.

America After the Fall – a very timely exhibition

Posted on by Geoff Andrew

I could not resist making an early visit to the Royal Academy’s latest exhibition, entitled ‘America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s’. For one thing I knew it included one my favourite American paintings, Grant Wood’s famous and much parodied ‘American Gothic’ (1930, above), which I’ve loved since I first discovered it as a … Continue reading America After the Fall – a very timely exhibition