James Cahill

@JamesCahill

Writer. Painter. Research Fellow in Classics / contemporary art

London
Joined March 2013
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    Charles Ray, Untitled, 1991

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    Jul 1

    Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde in London during the filming of Darling (1965)

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    Jun 30

    New from the archive: We've digitized John Cheever's classic 1964 short story, "The Swimmer," for the very first time! Enjoy the novelist's tale of middle-class malaise and summertime in suburbia ahead of the July 4th weekend.

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    Jun 30

    Art lovers, Hockney has been getting a bit of a bashing for his i-Pad drawings at the RA, but I felt moved to defend him. What he has to do here is invent a whole new way of mark-making. It's a serious artistic challenge. And it raises interesting issues.

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    Jun 30

    Ruskin in the 1850s. How things have changed!

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  6. Jun 29

    “… what delights about Gallery Connections is its cheek – an anonymous, victimless crime, pricking the veneer of the gallery world, while pressing a nose up against its window.” Matthew Slotover on Angus Fairhurst’s ‘Gallery Connections’, 30 years on:

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  7. Jun 28

    ‘Orvil highlights his difference from others, just as when he “lick[s] up his tears to savour and taste them”, or applies lipstick to his nipples and extremities. (His story sways in a gentle breeze of homoeroticism.)’ on Denton Welch reissued

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  8. Jun 28

    In Youth Is Pleasure by Denton Welch review – bright glimpses of a lost existence

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  9. Jun 28

    “The phrase ‘widely read’ means that you can and should read things you disagree with.” on the meaning of ‘liberal education’ and the need to devalue dogma

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  10. Jun 28

    You can read American history in the same spirit Mark Milley defended, writes, "the way you would read a great piece of literature, seeking to understand the complexities and the nuances, the dark and the light, the good and the bad."

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    Jun 28

    A painting by the 18th-century French Rococo master Jean-Honoré Fragonard—long considered "insignificant" by its owner—has sold at auction for £6.6m

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    Jun 27

    More than thrilled to be able to write about Denton Welch’s 1945 novel In Youth is Pleasure in today’s . In the paper and Guardian Editions app now, online later. (Did u know he read Juliet to Roald Dahl’s Romeo at school?)

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    Jun 27

    'Woman Drinking.' (1936) Although never a leading figure among the Fitzroy Street or Camden Town circle of artists, Sylvia Gosse was a constant presence in the background of London artistic life. A pupil of Sickert, much of her later work, like his, was informed by photography.

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    Jun 25

    a Mark Rothko pen and ink drawing 1961

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    Jun 24

    has been longlisted for the First Book Prize! 🤩 Congratulations, Tomasz Jedrowski! 📚🏆

    Congrats to Paul Mendez Florence Given Andreena Leeanne Tomasz Jędrowski
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    Jun 22

    Oh, to be rid of my fixed ideas of how things “ought” to be— 6/22/70

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    Jun 22

    David Hockney's 1959 picture shows the general store at Kirton in Suffolk where he lodged before leaving to study at the Royal College of Art in 1959. The store closed some years ago. I'm starting a campaign for a blue plaque which commemorates Hockney's connection with Suffolk.

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  18. Jun 22

    Bounded blue: Frank Bowling, ‘Jamsahibwall’, 1990 ⁦⁩

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  19. Jun 22

    Painted into a corner: Urs Fischer, ‘Plywood Corner’, 2021 ⁦⁩

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  20. Jun 22

    ‘Sink’, 2021, by Urs Fischer: studio scene with screen printed paint ⁦⁩

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