Harry's Place Arts

Meeting I would call it An Avatar at my Table. This is one of Carl Barber’s works.  He makes pictures by introducing cyber people into a photographic scene.  See more of them here. He has an exhibition of his pictures at:- BLUE BEAN 272 Portobello High St Edinburgh EH15 2AT Interest declared – he’s a [...]

A guest post by de Bentvueghels A User’s Guide R The R punctuates and recalls the facticity of the graphematic band: the burning yet unscorchable monogram of Rebecca, the pin [tie-pin] of the strangler-rapist Rusk in Frenzy, the master spy “R” (as in rhododendron) in Secret Agent, the boy Arnie in The Trouble with Harry (and hence, with [...]

A guest post episode by de Bentvueghel Episode two is here In his work of theory-fiction, Pacific Wall, Jean-François Lyotard describes an imaginary notebook found in the foreign manuscript acquisitions of the University of California. He reproduces the text of the notebook and comments that it is “little more than a collection of syntactical and lexical approximations, far-fetched [...]

A guest post by de Bentvueghels Previous episode here “De Hooch’s grotto-scenes are strange interiors with tombs or remnants of ancient sculptures, often with female bather, and always with a view out of the mouth of the cave into the distance. They are difficult to describe as landscapes, being interiors; the feeling is weird and [...]

Episode One: The Scrying Mirror A guest post by de Bentvueghels Previous episode here “I know,” Tarkington said. “But according to the stories I hear, a lot of memories of that brutality live on in that Woven Sorrow rug. They say that when the Navajo headmen signed that treaty with General Sherman in 1866 and [...]

This is a guest post by googlebot Nice, immediately eye-catching google gif today to celebrate the anniversary of Gandhi’s birthday. It is also International Peace Day. Careful scrutiny of the image will reveal that it represents a fabric-based depiction alluding perhaps to his use of cotton in disseminating the simplicity of his message.

A guest post by de Bentvueghels Episode Four can be seen here “After dinner, a game of croquet was suggested. These people favoured the time-honoured but technically illegal setting of hoops, where two of the ten are crossed at the centre of the ground to form the so-called Cage or Mousetrap. It became immediately clear [...]

A guest post by de Bentvueghels Full title: ‘A View on the Tiber, near the Ripa Grande, Rome (?)’ about 1641 BOTH, Jan about 1615 – 1652 “The tower in the centre background resembles that of Santa Maria della Torre which was beside the Ripa Grande, the old port of Rome opposite the Aventine. The [...]

Michael Bérubé was contacted by the BBC to give an opinion on the Iggy Pop car insurance adverts currently being shown in the UK. They are intensely annoying and impinge on my enjoyment of the new series of Battlestar Galactica. Here are Bérubé’s thoughts. Mr Berube may live in Pennsylvania but thanks to the internet [...]

This is a postcard that I bought from the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam.  Click on it if you want to see it in more detail.