Posted in Art, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Politics, Uncategorized, tagged Dulwich Picture Gallery, Guido Reni, St Sebastian, Exhibitions, Ian Dejardin, Gordon Brown, The Agony and the Ecstasy on May 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
by Ian Dejardin, Dulwich Picture Gallery’s director
Guido Reni’s St Sebastians have been coming down this week. This has been one of the most fascinating displays I’ve seen for ages, and I shall miss this particularly beautiful art-history lesson.
I noticed, however, at the weekend that the cover of The Economist featured a political cartoon in which [...]
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Angela Corrias spoke to local Dulwich author Peter Chapman about his book Jungle Capitalists, an in-depth look at globalisation and the banana trade.
Every era has its own buzzword, and in the contemporary world this is globalisation. The controversial relations between a globalised economy and domestic politics is explained in Peter Chapman’s last book, “Jungle Capitalists”, [...]
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Day 71
Easiest £250 ever: Thought for the sake of completeness I’d wash on 40C, turn lights & appliances off, switch to low energy bulbs, use the dryer less and suddenly I’ve cut our energy consumption by 1/4 without really trying. We’ve saved enough to pay for a week’s accommodation in the Lakes this Autumn. I am [...]
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Posted in Around Dulwich, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Going Green, Interviews, Politics, tagged 2012 Olympics, Cultural Olympiad, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Neal's Yard remedies, Tessa Jowell on January 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Patrick Fraher interviews Tessa Jowell, MP for Dulwich and West Norwood, Olympics Minister and former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport at Dulwich Picture Gallery, Monday December 3 2007
Tessa arrived jetlagged but, fortified by some Neal’s Yard oils, she kindly spared some time to talk to us after the Christmas concert before nipping [...]
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