Jim Carroll's Blog

Arthur Leipzig, Divers, East River The exhibition ‘Portrait of a City’ considers one hundred years of American urban life as seen through the photographer’s lens.

Ivan Turgenev’s ‘A Month in the Country’ is set on a Russian country estate in the 1840s.

Richard Dadd - The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke 1855–64 I recently enjoyed a small exhibition of the art of Richard Dadd.

Walter Sickert - Lion Comique 1887.

‘The Cherry Orchard’ was Anton Chekhov’s last play.

Ferdinand Waldmüller - Large Prater Landscape I recently enjoyed a small, one-room exhibition of landscape paintings by Ferdinand Waldmüller.

I have always struggled with Summer Trousers.

I recently enjoyed an exhibition of art deco posters commissioned by London Transport in the 1920s and ‘30s.

Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975), Eidos, 1947, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

Women in the office of a duvet manufacturing firm use quilts to keep themselves warm while they workPhotograph: Evening Standard/Getty As a child growing up in the early 1970s, I enjoyed the bold fashions and vibrant music; the flamboyant footie and fabul…

V&A Storehouse V&A East Storehouse is the open-access depository for the Victoria & Albert Museum’s collection of art, design, fashion and performance.

Rosa Salazar and Dorothea Myer-Bennett in The Old Vic production of Glengarry Glen Ross.

Giaele e Sisara (ca.1620) - Artemisia Gentileschi (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest) Two elderly ladies had stopped to have a chat by the frozen food section at Islington Sainsbury’s.

Francisco de Zurbarán - Saint Serapion. 1628.

I recently enjoyed a production of Oscar Wilde’s 1895 play ‘An Ideal Husband.’

Tamara de Lempicka (1894-1980), Portrait of Mrs.

Hurvin Anderson - Grace Jones (2020): an air of fading memories (Image credit: Hurvin Anderson / The Thomas Dane Gallery / Richard Ivey) I very much enjoyed an exhibition of the work of Hurvin Anderson.

Konrad Magi - Norwegian Landscape I recently enjoyed a trip down to Dulwich to see an exhibition of the work of Estonian artist Konrad Magi.

Leonard Daniels (1909–1998) - A British Restaurant at Winchester © Southampton City Art Gallery The voicemail that morning was brisk and businesslike: ‘We’re looking forward to seeing you for lunch today.

A little while ago, I visited the Photographers’ Gallery to see a display celebrating 100 years of the photobooth.

Michaelina Wautier - Self Portrait I recently enjoyed an exhibition of the work of seventeenth century painter Michaelina Wautier (The Royal Academy, London until 21 June).

Manet - Un bar aux Folies Bergère There’s quite a choice of local pubs available to me.