Monthly Archives: June 2016

Just after Cecily Brown finished at the Slade art school, she came second in a competition, the John Jones Open. The prize was a plane ticket to New York. It was 1994, the height of the Young British Art boom. Brown, a gestural, non-conceptual painter, never came back. She returns to London so infrequently thatContinue reading “FT: CB. 12 Jun 2016.”

We come on the Sloop John B My grandfather and me Around Nassau town we did roam Drinking all night Got into a fight Well I feel so broke up I want to go home So hoist up the John B’s sail See how the main sail sets Call for the Captain ashore Let meContinue reading “A Fight? 10 Jun 2016.”