Simon Taylor

Dudley Benson’s A Performance in Openness took place on Sunday 1st November at Art Lounge. The venue has been annexed by the New Art Gallery. It was previously the Paramount (1999 Metro Restaurant of the Year under Paul Jobin) and the room remains much the same: the bar’s

– Anne Carson, by Terry Byrnes, from here And as per the title, Anne Carson under false sail can be read by clicking the photo of her.

There comes a time when all that has come before seems like a false start. Where does it come from, the sense of a false start? Since we can not choose how our narratives begin, only how they carry on, how they deal with each problem as it comes until

– Henri Cartier-Bresson, Balthus and Setsuko – Balthus (1908-2001), The Mountain , 1937 Literature is an objective, a projected result; it is life that is the unconscious, the agitated, the struggling, floundering cause. The artist’s life is his work, and that is the place to find him. – Henry James quoted in Joyce

– a detail, inverted, from Damien Hirst’s exhibition invitation to The Dead , from here (the skulls which follow are from the same source). The above title (and all subsequent quotation) is from here. The Guardian article by Fiachra Gibbons from which it’s drawn actually says, “All that remains is