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An Elizabethan adventure Even when museums open, the National Portrait Gallery, which I always like to do a quick sweep through if nearby, will be closed for renovations. If you’re on Pall Mall and missing Elizabethan and Jacobean portraits there’s always ‘Love’s Labour’s Found’ at Philip Mould (21 April–28 May), a chance to see 17 portraits that have been unearthed in recent years and are now mainly in private collections. I can’t wait to see ‘The Unintended Beauty of Disaster’ at Lisson (13 April–5 June). If there is anyone I have been wanting to hear from during the...

Edward Lear, Victorian author of nonsense verse, was also a water-colourist and a traveller. Lear's sense of humour was contrasted with his severe bouts of depression. Gregarious and popular, he had a wide circle of friends including Alfred Tennyson, yet was often lonely. As well as descriptions of some of Lear's sketches and watercolours (of which he painted some 10,000 in the course of his career), Levi also provides critical analysis of classic poems, such as "The Jumblies", "The Owl and the Pussycat" and "The Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo", setting them in the wider context of traditional nursery rhym...

Article content In these unconventional times, many area families have stayed away from conventional schooling. The Avon Maitland District School Board reports that there are more than 1,100 students in their remote learning school this year, 696 in elementary with an additional 443 secondary students. But there are also 268 students a part of their PROG Homeroom program, where paper packages with the curriculum are picked up regularly by parents at their “home” school. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. That doesn’t count those who are exclusi...

Image by MorningbirdPhoto from Pixabay April is the gateway to spring and also, appropriately, National Poetry Month. Poetry is a high art and an enormously important part of the Western intellectual tradition, but I must confess that, although I have a few favorite poets, I never became a dedicated reader. We were made to study poems at school, and to memorize and recite popular examples from an ancient book called Palgrave’s Golden Treasury. This was a painful experience for young boys, especially when the verses were of a romantic nature, as they often were. Being compelled to read th...

Extract from Sauntering: Writers Walk Europe, introduced and edited by Duncan Minshull | reviews, news & interviews Extract from Sauntering: Writers Walk Europe, introduced and edited by Duncan Minshull Extract from Sauntering: Writers Walk Europe, introduced and edited by Duncan Minshull An ode to leisurely aimlessness by TheartsdeskMonday, 15 March 2021 Wandering, ambling, sauntering. The last, least heard of the three, captures a sense of leisurely aimlessness: a jolly meander unbound by destination, admitting none of the qualms of timekeeping or pacing. Wandering, a...