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That's How The Light Gets In

Books, exhibitions, films, music, places – anything that inspires. Here so I don't forget.

Books, exhibitions, films, music, places - anything that inspires. Here so I don't forget.

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Richard Thompson's 1952 Vincent Black Lightning: mythic tale
How the light gets in: an imperfect introduction
Lucian Freud: dogged portraitist
The Dingle: digging into the past
Walking the Leeds-Liverpool canal
Footfalls echo in the memory
David Hare's Page Eight: classy television
Matisse in Nice: through an open window
Painting with scissors: Matisse's cut-outs at Tate Modern
A summer of Matisse: the colour of music

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Who are we, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopaedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly reshuffled and reordered in every conceivable way.

- Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium

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