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Category Archives: Art, Photography & Sculpture
Cecil Beaton Exhibit @ NPG (More)
–The curator of the National Potrait Gallery’s Cecil Beaton exhibit (Robin Muir) has posted several photos (some with his comments) of the exhibit. There is one on Instagram showing Henry Lamb’s portraits of Evelyn Waugh and Cecil Beaton hanging next … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Lectures, London, Newspapers, Photographs, Portraits
Tagged Cecil Beaton, National Portrait Gallery, Robin Muir, Vogue
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Beaton Exhibit Opens at NPG
The much-mentioned exhibition of Cecil Beaton’s photgraphic record of the Bright Young People of the 1920s opens today at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Waugh’s biographer Selina Hastings has written a review for the current issue of Tatler. It … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Decline and Fall, Events, Interviews, London, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Cecil Beaton, Ferdinand Mount, Guardian, Henry Lamb, Londonist, Robin Muir, Selina Hastings, Southby's, Tatler, The Oldie, The Times
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Bright Young People Re-illuminated
There are several stories in the press about the “Bright Young People” inspired by next Thursday’s opening of the Cecil Beaton exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery mentioned in several previous posts. The most interesting of these is by Hugo … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Events, London, Newspapers, Photographs, Vile Bodies
Tagged Cecil Beaton, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, National Portrait Gallery
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Waugh and Pre-Raphaelites at Yale
The New Criterion’s website has posted an article about an exhibit at the Yale Center for British Art entitled “Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement”. The article is written by Stephen Schmalhofer and opens with this: … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Decline and Fall, Events, Newspapers, Rossetti: His Life and Works
Tagged New Criterion, Stephen Schmalhofer, Yale Center for British Art
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Roundup of Updates
–The Wall Street Journal’s weekend edition carries a story by Tobias Grey about the upcoming exhibition of Cecil Beaton’s works. This opens on 12 March at the National Portrait Gallery in London. See earlier posts. After describing the genesis of … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Newspapers, Oxford, Photographs, Waugh Family
Tagged Cecil Beaton, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Hexham Book Festival, The Times, Wall Street Journal
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Otto Silenus Rides Again in New Criterion
The cutural journal New Criterion posts an editorial in its current issue relating to the recent announcement of a new Federal policy on architectural style. This is entitled “Decline, fall & rise: On ‘Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again’”. The article … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Decline and Fall, Newspapers
Tagged architecture, Hugo Charteris, New Criterion
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Waugh and Celebrations, or not, as the Case May Be
–The Guardian in an editorial recently addressed various proposals to celebrate (or gloat over) Brexit. These range from suggestions of Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson that Big Ben be temporarily brought back into service to ring in their victory and Leave … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Newspapers, Photographs, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Brexit, Bright Young People, Castle Howard, Daily Mail, Guardian, Vogue
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Cartoons: Devlin Waugh and Mr Joshua
Two cartoons with connections to Evelyn Waugh have recently come to our attention. The first is a character named “Devlin Waugh” that has appeared in various British cartoon anthologies dating back to 1992. That was when the character was invented, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Humo(u)r
Tagged @Pants, Devlin Waugh, Duncan McLaren
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Mid-November Roundup
–The Oxford journal Cherwell reviews a current production of Hamlet at the Keble College O’Reilly Theatre. The review opens with a quote from Evelyn Waugh: “Would you not see a hundred Hamlets pottering about Broad Street?” Evelyn Waugh’s question is … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Auberon Waugh, Complete Works, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Ambrose McEvoy, Cherwell, Daily Mail, OUPblog, The Oldie, Words on Fire
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Brideshead Products On Offer
An internet-based marketing company called TeePublic.com has on offer several personal articles of clothing and household goods decorated with the cover art from the dust jacket of the Little, Brown/Book of the Month Club 1945 first edition of Brideshead Revisited. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Items for Sale
Tagged buythebook88, Dust Jackets, Lester M Peterson, Little Brown & Co, TeePublic.com
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