Saturday, December 29, 2012

Generalising about Art

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What do wine and paintings have in common? It’s very difficult to write about each! They impact on our senses (palate and nose; eye and b...
Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Two more realist Romanian painters of the early 20th century

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Two painters were missing from yesterday’s list of important Romanian painters of the early 20 th  ;Century – one deliberately, the other...
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Monday, December 24, 2012

Romanian Realists of the early 20th Century

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I’ve been a bit sniffy about the Romanian painting tradition. Compared with the Bulgarian it is certainly less accessible and more elitis...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Francophiles, Turkophobes.... and a Kipling poem

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The Elephant (second-hand English) bookshop has now at last reopened in its more central location in Shishman St, Sofia. The books are mo...
Thursday, December 13, 2012

Balkan bites and Russian robberies

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I’ve not been in the mood for blogging since a Russian theft, a Bulgarian dog-bite and a Bulgarian eviction last week. Early Wednesday ...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Disaster facing Romania

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A very tragic situation developing for Romania after Sunday’s parliamentary elections there – with the unholy alliance of ex-communists a...
Wednesday, December 5, 2012

You are where you live

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A Samuel Pepys - (or Marcel Proust -) type entry today. Thanks to a couple of recent moves in my accommodation I’m seeing another si...
Sunday, December 2, 2012

Press Liberties

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The UK prides itself on its liberties – with freedom of speech and of the press being at the top of the list. But whose liberties have t...