Blog readers will have to forgive you. Its kind of Downtime in academia (the quiet before the October storm) and also in the post-August/pre-Frieze art world. If you had some money you would definitely go to Venice for the first time in your life right now but only a trip to ‘Little Venice’ and perhaps a stroll along Regents Canal looks likely. If you do that trip you promise to Blog the results.

Little Venice, London

But in a way it is against your principles to say some of the above. You never wanted to write a Blog that was a series of ‘Reviews’ or some gossipy chat about the so-called ‘art world,’ Some seem to refuse to see your Blog however as any more than that, and so you are regularly asked to use the Blog to publicise a current show etc.

NO! NO! NO! You have to stay…