BillF

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Nope...got me there Does this help? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_cherry I don't think they're known here in the UK.

Edwina Curry (geddit?) John Major Lord Justice Leveson

Yes, with you on Nash and John Piper too Once again, with you on both of those. Paul Nash is about as good as you can get in 20th century British painting IMHO.

Well, if that's a mouldy fig, I'm one too! I'd certainly like to see that show. I have a personal interest in it, too, as Joash Woodrow, the late brother of my friend Paul, was a British painter who was hugely influenced by Picasso. Here's Joash's portrait of Paul's wife, Judith, plus his Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joash_Woodrow

Yes, daughter says she'd like to see it. Says she loved this recent one at Tate Modern: http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/yayoi-kusama

Alan Plater Christine Blower Mitchell Zuckoff Nora Ballsoff Baldy Pevsner E.J. Thribb P C Ned Strangelove Spiggy Topes Dave Spart

Alan Plater Christine Blower Mitchell Zuckoff

Nice one, John!

Some excellent Wardell on this one: Thank you, David!

Jeremy Hunt John Birks Gillespie Jimmy Pratt

Quentin Crisp The Naked Civil Servant Keith Moon

I'm just not on the same wavelength as most contemporary art, but curiously I found this exhibition quite appealing after reading a review of it today. Then I noticed it was of the last half century and that explained it. People like Yves Klein, though extreme, belong to my era. Perhaps I'll visit it with my London-resident elder daughter. She digs contemporary art, so perhaps this show might be a meeting point. http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/jun/10/ten-best-invisible-artworks-hayward?INTCMP=SRCH Here in the north of England things are a good deal more conventional. Liverpool Tate's new show that links Turner, Monet and Cy Twombly will certainly get a visit from me.

Glower? Typo, dialect or poetic licence? You're not going all Grammar Police on me, Bill? http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/glower Guess it must be poetic licence.

Pygmalion Piggy Del Boy Trotter

The Boys in the Band Orchestra Wives WAGs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAGs

Enver Hoxha Alban Berg Joe Albany

Well shiver me timbers! Just ordered it from the Jazz Record Center-for top dollar, I'm sure, but hey, it's Wes-and saints need to get paid. Well, Rommel did wander the Western Desert shouting "Wes Montgomery!"

Glower? Typo, dialect or poetic licence?

Darren Stride Johnny Walker Hale and Pace

Geoffrey Smith's Jazz from BBC Radio 3 Geoffrey's theme of Porgy and Bess has produced some interesting tracks from Bill Potts, Joe Henderson and Rex Stewart/Cootie Williams, as well as the more expected ones by Miles, Ella and Louis and Coltrane. The new show is definitely worth a listen IMHO.

Enoch Light Enoch Powell Seldon Powell

I catch him occasionally on WKCR online. Great! That NYC voice is something the BBC jazz presenters can't match!