Illegitimi non carborundum – Don’t let the bastards grind you down. It seems like an apt way to kick off this post. There are three incidents/factoids floating around in my head as I sit to write this. 1. My agent dropped me last week after just 8 months because I wasn’t available enough to audition […]
Picasso and the Myth of Originality
Today I attended a great exhibition at the Courtauld Institute, Becoming Picasso, Paris 1901, which looks at one year in Picasso’s output, 1901 when he first came to Paris as an ambitious 19-year-old and proceeded to paint up a storm. The breadth of his work during this period is remarkable. What is interesting about this […]