Monday, November 12, 2012

Last sanctuaries of originality

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In the increasingly homoegenised world in which we sadly now exist, second-hand bookshops and private art galleries are the last sanctu...
Sunday, November 11, 2012

New painters - and wine

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I’m not the only one casting my mind back to the murderous behaviour from which this part of the world has suffered in the past century...
Thursday, November 8, 2012

The 1944 communist takeover of Bulgaria

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It was a throwaway phrase in the introduction to the superb Alexander Bozhinov book which I picked up earlier in the week which alerted...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Private collections

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A mixed experience at the recently re-opened National Gallery of Art here in Sofia. It had been closed for refurbishment for almost a y...
Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Does it really matter?

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I had a premonition Obama wouldn’t make it – the sites which I was accessing wanted him to win and, I suspect, put a particular spin on t...
Sunday, November 4, 2012

Artist's studio in Sofia

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I left Bucharest in mild fog at 08.00 on Saturday but, once across the Danube, Bulgaria welcomed me with blue skies and a superb display ...
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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Pork sausages, Marmite and....Romanian politics

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One of the many pleasures I’m looking forward when I (Insallah!) get to Sofia at the weekend is at last visiting the shop of the guy who ...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Jules Pascin - man of the world from the Danube

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Last year, while I was compiling my list of almost 150 20 th century Bulgarian painters whose work appealed to me, I would occasionally ...
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