Up close and personal with the Face of Spain (book about Velázquez)

Didn't get to catch the National Gallery's Velázquez exhibition or couldn't linger over the paintings because of the gobs of people? A great book with lots of images is Norbert Wolf's Diego Velázquez: 1599-1660, The Face of Spain, published by Taschen. Enjoy.

Mandatory reading for London's expat community!

Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour by Kate Fox is mandatory reading for any non-English residents of England - or anyone who plans to be here for an extended stay. I wish I'd read this years ago!



Really I don't see why anthropologists feel they have to travel to remote corners of the world and get dysentery and malaria in order to study strange tribal cultures with bizarre beliefs and mysterious customs, when the weirdest, most puzzling tribe of all is right here on our doorstep.
- Kate Fox