John Lennon would have been 80 today. It’s difficult to imagine what he would have done in the years since his death in 1980. Most of us, though, will have heard about the time he and artist Yoko Ono gave some of their honeymoon over to promoting the idea of peace. After getting married on the 20th March 1969 in Gibraltar, the couple staged perhaps the most perfect of publicity stunts in Amsterdam and Montreal from their hotel bed.
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Street art, graffiti art, guerilla art, whatever you want to call it, it’s everywhere. Thanks to Banksy, the good stuff gets noticed and appreciated. How about some guerilla mosaic art to look out for in Edinburgh? How about Helen Miles? How about leaving behind any preconceptions you have about street artists?
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Dunbar’s Close Garden, a walk through time and space in Edinburgh’s historic Old Town…
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So, after looking at the previous post on the history of her life, how can we travel in the footsteps of Alice Guy? Much of her working life has been lost to cinema’s forgotten history. The advent of the talkies and the later dominance of Hollywood as a production centre in the USA can often obliterate the early years of cinema. Much of it is not preserved and, much like the old nitrate films themselves, seems to have gone up in smoke. But, let’s have a peek at what we might find. For a few moments, let me be your travel guide in space and time 😉
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During lockdown days, I’ve been staying local (of course). So I’ve been delving a little deeper into the alleyways and corners of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile to uncover its most creatively-charged stories and details. Let’s have a look at White Horse Close. But first up…
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Did you ever walk into a museum and wonder about your own history, identity, longings and obsessions? Did you ever discover objects which had more of a direct line to your heart’s history than the history of the world ever could? Did you ever think you would discover that in a narrow street in Istanbul?
On a trip to Kraków last year, I was excited to obsessively follow in every footstep I could find of one of my favourite poets. Read more
Take a tour of architecture in Edinburgh. Highlights from Cobble Tales New Town architecture tour of Edinburgh. Read more
Frida Kahlo at the Botanical Gardens, The Bronx, New York
May 16 — November 1 2015
