Grounded!

Volcanic ash over Europe means no jet-setting to Paris to see the Yves Saint Laurent retrospective, Chicago to admire the Matisse show or New York to see the Picassos at the Met.

Forget the delays and invest in the lavish publications instead.
Enjoy the sunshine and the silent London skies and spend the day travelling vicariously from haute couture to the experimental, abstracted works that Matisse made in the early decade of the twentieth century.


Ah the bliss of island life!


The exhibition catalogues ‘Yves Saint Laurent’ ed. Florence Muller and Farin Chenoune (£35.00) and ‘Matisse: Radical Invention 1913-1917’ ed. Stephanie Alessandro and John Elderfield and ‘Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’, ed. Gary Tinterow and Susan Alyson Stein are all available at Potterton Books, London.