It’s a lovely thing about visiting Cambridge – the place is heaving with free museums. And queen among them must surely be The Fitzwilliam.

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Reverse (n): The rear or back of something; the opposite side or face from the one usually viewed.

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Camera Obscura (Latin; “dark chamber”): an optical device, thought to have been favoured by several renowned artists, that projects an image of people or natural phemomena onto a screen for copying.

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What I’m reading online today – if you like what you see, add me to your Delicious network…

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What I’m reading online today – if you like what you see, add me to your Delicious network…

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What I’m reading online today – if you like what you see, add me to your Delicious network…

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On the verge of the unveiling, the public art project representing each of Europe’s nations as a pop-out piece from an Airfix kit, turns out to be not quite what the Great and Good were expecting. And everyone, absolutely everyone, has found something to be offended about.

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Found this via BoingBoing – an incredibly interesting experiment done by Belgian cultural broadcaster Klara.bi. It took an internationally-important contemporary painter called Luc Tuymans, whose works are viewed reverently in galleries and which change hands for huge sums of money.

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