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Art Galleries well worth visiting

• John Soane Museum
• Kettle’s Yard
• New Art Centre, Roche Court
• The Hepworth Wakefield
• Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield

Blogroll

• Cathedral Of Shit
• Groove Notes
• http://cathylomax.blogspot.com/
• The Hepworth Wakefield
• The Sartorialist
• thejazzbreakfast
• WordPress.com
• WordPress.org

Favourite buildings

• Brighton Pavilion
• Chicago Chicago
• David Chipperfield
• Frank Lloyd Wright – Guggenheim
• John Hancock Centre, Chicago
• Leeds Corn Exchange
• Royal Festival Hall
• The Hepworth Wakefield

Films worth seeing

• Adam’s Rib
• Bergman’s The Seventh Seal
• Capturing The Friedmans
• Forbidden Planet
• Halloween
• Kind Hearts and Coronets
• Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon
• Powell and Pressburger’s The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
• Rear Window
• Ring (not the American remakes)
• The 400 Blows
• The Battle of Algiers
• The Blair Witch Project
• The Haunting (1963) not the awful remake
• The Samurai
• To Catch a Thief

Great art

• All about Barbara Hepworth
• Degas’ Bellelli Family
• Donald Judd
• Gaudier-Brzeska
• John Singer Sargeant’s Lady Agnew
• Manet’s Olympia
• Matisse – The Piano Lesson
• Paul Nash
• Peep Show
• Philip Guston
• Piet Mondrian
• Samuel Palmer
• Walker Evans
• Walter Sickert

Great design

• A practice for everyday life
• Aquascutum make excellent men’s suits if you’re skinny
• Best bespoke men’s shirts
• Designed for life
• ECM Album covers book ‘Horizons Touched’
• Great graphic design for 4AD records
• Inspirational graphic designer
• More nice suits but pricey
• Neville Brody’s 1980s designs for Fetish Records
• Reid Miles great graphic design for Blue Note
• The Sartorialist

Great music

• A super soprano
• A wonderful pianist
• An excellent record label
• An inspirational contemporary musician
• Bill Evans – one of the very greatest pianists
• Brad Mehldau official site
• Endlessly fascinating piano music by Debussy
• Hilary Hahn – a wonderful violinist
• Inspirational record producer
• Jazz from the mid 1960s was where it was at
• My favourite guitarist
• Pop’s greatest record producer?
• Some of the best music ever made
• The ongoing influence of Kraftwerk
• They call him ‘Mr Weird’

Inspirational literature

• Adam Phillips – always intriguing and ‘Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored’ is my favourite title for a book
• Anne Tyler
• Anything by Primo Levi
• Flaubert’s Madame Bovary
• Fournier’s Le Grande Meaulnes
• Gillian Flynn – Sharp Objects
• Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter, Brighton Rock, The End of the Affair
• Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game
• Ian McEwan’s Atonement
• Kafka’s Amerika
• Lunar Park by Brett Easton Ellis reviewed by Adam Phillips
• Nabakov’s shocking Lolita
• Nietzsche’s Aphorisms
• Oscar Wilde’s Aphorisms
• Pragmatist Aesthetics – Art as Experience
• Richard Rorty’s inspirational pragmatism changed my worldview
• Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida
• Saul Bellow’s The Dangling Man
• Slate – you should read it
• The Penguin Guide to Jazz – my favourite toilet read
• Winston Churchill’s Aphorisms

Pragmatism

• Interview with Richard Rorty
• John Dewey – Art As Experience
• More Pragmatism
• Pragamatist Philosophy
• Richard Shusterman

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• Thanks we love this! RT @lumenarts: @HepworthGallery High speed tour of Wakefield from 1973 http://t.co/k7Yare3q 1 day ago
• RT @artfund: We helped to acquire Hepworth Family Gift for @HepworthGallery on #artfundprize longlist, see the film: http://t.co/d8Oge5UN 2 days ago
• Win lunch and a tour with the director at Hepworth Wakefield - Top News Stories - News - The Art Fun http://t.co/XYOcet67 3 days ago
• RT @artfund: we're celebrating @HepworthGallery on #artfundprize longlist! WIN a tour with the Director + lunch for 2: http://t.co/K9LR2W4w 3 days ago
• Can't wait to read about Rachel Cusk's failed marriage, she writes so well... http://t.co/58Ykmr0B 4 days ago
• I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/X9kJKK3F Joe dancing to Art Tatum's Happy Feet 5 days ago
• Britain's Shortsighted View of Picasso http://t.co/WN60LrrV 6 days ago
• This is really pretty fabulous http://t.co/HTWzNmG9 6 days ago
• A legacy that Turner would have approved of... http://t.co/74sKhCDW 1 week ago
• The Getty Museum has a new director but an old problem... http://t.co/OJhNb4BJ 1 week ago
• RT @lufctrust: Tonight is another example of why change is needed at Leeds United from top to bottom... and quickly #lufc 1 week ago
• I posted 12 photos on Facebook in the album "Almscliffe Cragg with the Cruzs" http://t.co/6BsQ6XMr 1 week ago
• I posted a new photo to Facebook http://t.co/GuSSAuJi 1 week ago
• Fantasising about a Fujifilm X100 before bed...I am middle aged. http://t.co/0vdQI8fY http://t.co/21n2lIsa 1 week ago
• A series of firsts keep the visitors coming to The Hepworth - Art - Yorkshire Post: http://t.co/2gWDvvC0 via @AddThis 1 week ago
• Independent: When Little England climbed the stairway to Modernist heaven... http://t.co/5q1VZz0g 1 week ago
• RT @S1Artspace: Fantastic preview last night @HepworthGallery. Ben Rivers' Slow Action is a fascinating & beguiling film. 1 week ago
• Hepworth Wakefield presents Heather & Ivan Morrison, Ben Rivers and David Thorpe http://t.co/xiuyFAGa 1 week ago
• John Foxx - Metamatic (album review) | Sputnikmusic http://t.co/7cDEw1Fe 2 weeks ago
• RT @CREATIVE_Times: Gr8 2 C @HepworthGallery up 4 another award @artfund MuseumofYear Check @chrissharratt feat/vid int http://t.co/rZxn75Ar 2 weeks ago

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