Archive for September, 2008
Fantastic Vision from Outsider Artists
A visit to the current “Eloquent Visions: Outsider and Visionary Art” exhibition at the Orleans House Gallery in Twickenham is an absolute must if you have any inerest in Outsider Art or Art Brut.
The exhibitions showcases works from a variety of artists including Adolf Wolfli, Scottie Wilson, Edward Monsiel and schizophrenic cat artist Louis Wain. […]Director Quits Over Creationist Comments
So Michael Reiss, the Royal Societies director of education, has now resigned after having caused much anger after suggesting that science teachers should teach creationist beliefs “not as a misconception but as a world view“.
His views were accurately described as outrageous by Nobel Prize Winner, Sir Richard Roberts. It was felt that Michael Reiss’s […]‘Credit crunch’ has nothing to do with food and petrol prices!
The Nurse is baffled by rampant credit crunch malapropism.
The credit crunch has nothing to do with increasing food and oil prices. The term refers to the financial markets having no money to lend to home buyers because several high profile sub-prime mortgage books collapsed. And the resulting fartiness of the banks who are now too […]
