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Paul Klee: “This flower wishes to fade”
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- Brighton Pavilion
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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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Simon Wallis
- How the Art Fund's crucial help allowed The Hepworth's collection to grow... http://t.co/AuPMzlNA 7 hours ago
- My article in Yorkshire Post on why investment in culture provides superb returns for us all... http://t.co/WVLfaX9X 7 hours ago
- Thanks we love this! RT @lumenarts: @HepworthGallery High speed tour of Wakefield from 1973 http://t.co/k7Yare3q 2 days ago
- RT @artfund: We helped to acquire Hepworth Family Gift for @HepworthGallery on #artfundprize longlist, see the film: http://t.co/d8Oge5UN 3 days ago
- Win lunch and a tour with the director at Hepworth Wakefield - Top News Stories - News - The Art Fun http://t.co/XYOcet67 4 days ago
- RT @artfund: we're celebrating @HepworthGallery on #artfundprize longlist! WIN a tour with the Director + lunch for 2: http://t.co/K9LR2W4w 4 days ago
- Can't wait to read about Rachel Cusk's failed marriage, she writes so well... http://t.co/58Ykmr0B 5 days ago
- I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/X9kJKK3F Joe dancing to Art Tatum's Happy Feet 6 days ago
- Britain's Shortsighted View of Picasso http://t.co/WN60LrrV 1 week ago
- This is really pretty fabulous http://t.co/HTWzNmG9 1 week 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
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