Lincoln Statue – Look Up, Look Down Challenge, week 2
Every Thursday I post a picture or two taken from […]
The Fourth Plinth gets the Blues
There is a plinth at each corner of Trafalgar Square. The two plinths on the south side carry sculptures of Henry Havelock and Charles James Napier. The northeastern plinth, carries an equestrian statue of George […]
Mr. and Mrs. Big
Only in Manhattan! Linked to Photo Friday, Big and Monday Mellow Yellow.
Phlegm at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
Many of the buildings on the South Bank in London are ugly, concrete boxes. The Queen Elizabeth Hall has taken this in hand and commissioned some street art to liven things […]
Trompe l’Oeil in Bedarieux
I particularly like the muted colours of this painting and the care that has been taken to produce it; it is convincingly realistic. The girl IS real, but the dog […]
Art Everywhere Launches
Art Everywhere, this summer’s mass public art display in Britain, goes live around the country tomorrow. The public have voted and the works for display this summer have been selected. […]
F is for… Famine
The Great Famine in Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration that had a huge impact on Ireland’s demographic, political and cultural future. In total, […]
Vintage Car Rally
A Vintage Car Rally takes place annually (normally March) from Barcelona to Sitges. The rally first took place in 1959 ( a very good vintage if I say so myself […]
Sitges Mural
This mural is on a hotel wall on the seafront in Sitges. It features the church of Sant Bartomeu and Santa Tecla of Sitges. Here is the real thing: Posted […]
Travel with Intent 