Following on from my first two blogs about my visit to the Cartier exhibition at the NGV on the 11th of June 2026, (here and here) my final one is centred on the last gallery. All of the galleries were designed to look like jewel boxes which I didn't attempt to capture on camera. Both the idea and its execution were well done. In this final one the … [Read more...] about Cartier 3
Cartier 2
This is my second blog on the Cartier exhibition which we saw on the 11th of June 2026. You can see the other two here and here. It's a very big exhibition and you could easily spend two hours there - if you have the energy. I managed an hour and a half and captured about a quarter of it. The galleries are designed as jewel boxes but I didn't get a … [Read more...] about Cartier 2
Cartier 1
We went to the Cartier exhibition on the 11th of June 2026 and enjoyed it a lot. It's on until the 4th of October 2026 so you have plenty of time to get to it. As members we attended the curator's talk which gave us a lot of information about the House - canny father, gave a different branch to each of his three sons - Paris, New York and London. … [Read more...] about Cartier 1
Books May-June 2026
Unquiet, Linn Ullman Reads like an autobiography but is described as fiction which is tricky. I thought it was all true, no doubt because of this review (probably behind a paywall in the TLS) which inspired me to read it. Her parents are Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullman. I've always loved his films, and her in them and have read quite a bit about … [Read more...] about Books May-June 2026
Books April – May 2026
Auden I’ve had a bit of a deep dive into W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden. He wrote one of my favourite poems, In Memory of W. B. Yeats - Earth receive an honoured guest; / William Yeats is laid to rest: / Let the Irish vessel lie / Emptied of his poetry. So I’ve always been interested in him but have not really understood his poetry or his elevated … [Read more...] about Books April – May 2026
French Film Festival
I managed to see five films at the recent French Film Festival in Melbourne and I recommend four them if they come to a screen near you. Here are the titles and trailers. The Richest Woman in the World Isabelle Huppert is fantastic in this. It's a fantastic story based on real life which is the subject of this documentary. Leave One … [Read more...] about French Film Festival