Thursday, April 11, 2013

Do paintings speak for themselves?

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On what was supposed to be the last evening in Sofia, a burst of purchases – this time from my friend Ruhmen's small Neron Gallery on...
Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Aquarelles

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Sofia’s City Gallery has a nice exhibition of aquarelles drawn from its archives which give a good sense of this particular genre as prac...
Monday, April 1, 2013

First real day of spring

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At last a pleasant day – with Mount Vitosha sharply edged in blue; white clouds scudding across its face; and people at last enjoying t...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

wine and sculpture

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 Thanks to  CasaVino , an eminently quaffable new red wine variety for these cold days – from a village in the Melnik area near the borde...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

Stoian Venev

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Various reasons for the 3 week silence – the numbing cold of the last few weeks; waiting for the results of various tests relating to my pr...
Sunday, March 3, 2013

Pleven Gallery at last

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On Thursday, I eventually made it to the Ilyia Beshkov Gallery in Pleven. The  gallery was easily found – in an imposing building and q...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Iceland as Inspiration

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Iceland is a small country (300,000 people) in the Scandinavian zone of influence whose citizens gave an example of democratic wisdom and...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Can public trust be restored??

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If this blog has had one theme in its four years’ of existence, it has been that of the increasing moral corruption of the European polit...