Pardon the late reply have been pondering this because i think it’s so interesting! Will revert soon!

If Trump’s now fine with Iran charging for access to the Straits of Hormuz, perhaps we could get in on the action with the Strait of Dover. A little toll booth on the Goodwin Sands.

Happy Easter everyone. Snowing here.

Aha. Bottom shelf stuff!

This week we discuss the ‘De Ganay’ version of the Salvator Mundi - Leonardo, or just workshop?
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Every Thursday!

Andrew Graham-Dixon and yours truly talking art at Words by the Water in the Lake District. (Andrew’s book on Vermeer by the way is superb and well worth an order).

V kind of you to say, thanks!

Ha, yes, thanks for coming!

not sure!

ta!

If you ever need a word to shake money out of tech VCs, try 'pyschographic'.

The ‘de Brecy Tondo’, once hailed by AI as an undoubted Raphael, has been quietly (and correctly) sold at auction as a later copy for £13k.

Restoring a painting is one of life’s great pleasures An effervescent hunt scene by Rubens is set to spring into life, thanks to experts at Dresden’s Gemäldegalerie

I wrote this about art restoration for the FT. www.ft.com/content/bfa0...

Beg pardon! This will be different though!

Talk: Bendor Grosvenor on

Next Thursday, 19th March, I'm talking at the King's Lynn festival, on The Invention of British Art. See you there!

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Yes! Such a great pic.

Yes, the scale of the Green win has shot the 'only we can stop Reform' argument.

Any worse than an economist?

My main conclusion from Gorton and Denton so far is that the punditocracy has little idea of what’s going on. They are as invested in, and connected to, the old system as the old parties.

Suspect the chance that something odiously fatal to the PM is found in the Mandelson documents have increased this morning. (And sacking the Cabinet Secretary responsible for handing the papers over might not have been too clever either).

Deep, deep joy that Goodwin isn’t an MP.

although one might in fact say the un-invention...

Aha, yes!

ah, well plenty of time yet. In all seriousness, someone needs to take a look at the history of history of art in the UK. That is, in the last forty years or so, charting the shift in approach and methodology. It needs a slightly removed eye to do it, you'd be great!

Nothing beats the interior photo, looks like a northern nightclub in the mid 70s.

The journey isn't over - the PhD awaits!

There were two chapels, though we don't know where the Diptych was kept. The image of the Madonna Richard went to see before going to Smithfield in 1381 was most likely in the Abbey.

That’s true. Although tbh I suspect we’re still at the beginning of this particular crisis. Who knows what else will emerge.

Oh cool, you crammed a lot in, thanks for coming!