A century ago, the film star Alma Taylor was voted the most popular British performer by the magazine Pictures and the Picturegoer, rated higher than Charlie Chaplin. She’d been a child actress, first gaining recognition for a series of comic shorts, Tilly the Tomboy. Looking back in a 1931 interview, Taylor enthused about film’s placeContinue reading “Note. 10 Oct 2015.”
Monthly Archives: October 2015
Note. 10 Oct 2105.
Baconic.
POst. 9 Oct 2015.
Simon Shaw, Sotheby’s global co-head of impressionist and modern art, said: “The blue period is the holy grail for collectors at the highest levels because it is the first time that [Picasso] really finds his own vision — his interest in sex and death and the themes that will underline his career for the nextContinue reading “POst. 9 Oct 2015.”
Note. 9 Oct 2015.
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Note. 6 Oct 2015.
Sarfing, as they say in Japan.
Note. 5 Oct 2015.
Post. 5 Oct 2015.
I Mars. Or why Austin will never have a museum… Just condos.
Post. 4 Oct 2015.
Around town.