Jonathan Meades

Oh, that is a disappointment.

I hope our hero is alright;
Let's hope it is just scheduling and not health related.

For Meades fans: http://www.theguardian.com/guardian-masterclasses/2016/apr/13/art-appreciation-with-jonathan-jones-an-evening-at-the-tate-modern-course

well, that'll be fucking shit

£99 and no Meades! I paid a fiver to see him talk for two hours a few months back...

jesus, £99...

The Guardian Masterclasses are all absurdly overpriced but it's one of the few bits that actually makes any money so I guess they're milking it for all it's worth.

Jonathan Meades stencil under Spaghetti Junction.

A photo posted by Pete Ashton (@peteashton) on May 22, 2016 at 5:09am PDT

BBC4 9pm tonight. Meades documentary about the architecture of Mussolini.

Missed the first couple of minutes,
but it is Humaxed so can watch it again,
to ensure the commentary that slipped through while my mind was digesting the latest pithy offering is assimilated.
'All sport is F4scist', 'Julian & Sandy reference', FIAT's Lignotto car factory, .....

Some interesting links here,
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jun/01/the-dictator-who-failed-to-dictate-free-range-architecture-under-mussolini

along with demands for the Dictator Trilogy to be expanded to a Pentology
to include Franco and Salazar.

rad. that's my evening sorted then.

"Facist Mamil"

Fuck me and my reading comprehension! How did I read jones for Meades? Perhaps wishful thinking - I suspect a bit of an off day. I did think it was a bit wanky for him.

The Meades ride- we must do it....

Were you thinking of the 'Beton Brut' ride to visit all the unfinished concrete buildings people liked/hated?

@Fox took us on a Joy of Essex ride which was great.

Any pictures?
(Of the buildings, of course).

The Whitechapel Gallery are doing a Meades retrospective over the next couple of weeks:

http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/jonathan-meades-retrospective/

Tonight 27 May BBC4 22.30 Meades on Jargon.

Bit sweary.

Will, inevitably, have to watch it again,
but it gets a thumbs up for remembering the full name of the constituency
currently (under) represented by dePfeffel is 'Uxbridge & South Ruislip'.

That was interesting. Quite hard hitting critique of easy targets: the modern art world, politicians, tabloid writers, sports pundits and more

The zombied(?) portraits of politicians were especially good.

I've watched it twice, there are many gems in there.

Just watched his old (1998?) episode called Travels With Pevsner on Worcestershire (my home state), so so good

http://thequietus.com/articles/25180-diana-mexican-mariachi-band

Everything about this sounds great.