tone or technique

My mother has just written an e-mail in response to Hassan's description of the concert by Lortie, which I sent her in an e-mail some ti...

Casting

Ingrid showed this extraordinary sculpture of her mother, Elsa, at the London Art Fair in January. I've asked her to do one of me; she ...

Nothing to do with Tom Cruise

The director Tom Dey has optioned The Last Samurai and plans to make a film of it. (I am rather hoping he will persuade Kurosawa Productions...

1 degree of separation from Lisa

My dear dear friend Alex Frey has been telling me about the extremely fabulous Lisa, who does highpowered matchmaking among companies. He a...

Gunslinger gesucht

DeWitt and Gridneff are looking for a fistful of dollars, or ein paar Dollar mehr -- yep, we're looking for an agent. The opening chapte...

Alex Frey and Tristram Shandy

An Air Force officer recently back from Iraq came up to Berlin for a few days. The blog immediately took on a Shandean impossibility, in whi...

The Third Arm

Johanna Thompson tells me she has seen Automatenhilfe in Frankfurt and in Friedrichstrasse. We were arranging to meet an exhibition last wee...