JEAN PHILIP DE TENDER

everything is a story

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  • McDermott&McGough

    Although younger for several years, Steven was the first to introduce me to gay nightlife. I vaguely recall a Saturday evening when my mother suggested I join Steven for an evening out. Why not? We drove to a small gay nightclub in Gent. I remember we had to go down the stairs, and in that…

    everyone and everything is a story

    mei 29, 2023
    art, books
    andy warhol, art, mcdermott and mccough, new york
  • culinary Athens bis

    We were in Athens a year ago and were pleasantly surprised by the local gastronomy. This is what I wrote. What we experienced then was not a lucky shot. Aleria Kerameikos, once the pottery area of Athens, is an emerging neighborhood. The ancient Greek cemetery is worth a visit. But it also has plenty of…

    everyone and everything is a story

    mei 1, 2023
    Uncategorized
    aleria, athens, food, greece, hytra, restaurant, soil
  • Larry Stanton (1947 – 1984)

    Larry Stanton was a portraitist. Skill in portraiture is an instinct. It cannot be taught (the only “method” it can have is a dreary measurement, but even that without instinct is not very interesting.) The portraitist is an observer of people. His attitudes and feelings will be reflected in his observations, and usually the interest…

    everyone and everything is a story

    april 8, 2023
    art
    arthur lambert, david hockney, larry stanton, portraitist
  • snapshot

    I am of a generation who still remembers what it meant to buy a film roll. You had to choose between 12, 24, or 36 “exposures.” And there was always that difficult choice to make between Kodak and Fuji. They said the first had warmer colors; the latter had a cooler, more green-blue feel.  At the…

    everyone and everything is a story

    maart 19, 2023
    me
  • David Bowie: Lector in fabula

    David Bowie spans a career of almost 60 years. There is more than one Bowie. He is different artists, personalities, and avatars.  I love books, booklovers, bookshops, and publishers. Editions La Baconnière is a small Geneva editor. At Art Geneva, I discovered their offer. My eye fell on “David Bowie: Lector in fabula”, by Yann…

    everyone and everything is a story

    februari 6, 2023
    art, books, inspiration, waow
    david bowie, lector in fabula, yann courtiau
  • ti amo (about the first sentence)

    Each book has a first sentence, a first paragraph, and a first page. That first can make all the difference. Some books had an ever-lasting impact on me just because of the first words.   I wrote earlier that I was blown away Andrew Sean Greer’s “Portrait of a Marriage”, especially the opening. I love you.…

    everyone and everything is a story

    januari 21, 2023
    books
    first sentences, hanne orstavik, martin aitkin, ti amo
  • art business

    I don’t recall when I was first exposed to art. There is a vague remembrance of art lessons in primary school, and I liked it. No teacher was pivotal in my appreciation of art. The real change came when 25 years ago I met my partner Filip. Him being an art historian, there were always…

    everyone and everything is a story

    januari 8, 2023
    art, creativity, inspiration
    albert pepermans, anri sala, bourse de la commerce, magnus resch, manuela klerckx, schonfeld gallery, shame gallery, sofie van de velde, talk art
  • a healthy business life

    I became a junior manager in my thirties. With the appointment came plenty of business lunches and dinners. The result: I gained 8 kilograms; my husband Filip – although he didn’t join these lunches – 12. That lasted for a year or three until he decided that enough was enough. So overnight, we changed our…

    everyone and everything is a story

    november 16, 2022
    me
    paul tucker, personal training
  • marc didden over cinema

    De loopbanen van Marc Didden en mezelf kruisten toen ik nog netmanager bij Eén was. Dat is intussen al meer dan een tijdje geleden. Ik werk niet meer voor Eén, en zelfs niet meer bij VRT. Vermits ik nu Europees lobby in het belang van het Europees publiek omroepbestel, staan zowel mijn bureau als mijn…

    everyone and everything is a story

    november 9, 2022
    Uncategorized
    luster, marc didden, over cinema
  • découvrir Philippe Besson

    I read in English most of the time. Most books on my shelves originate either from the United States or the United Kingdom. Today I rarely read authors in my native language Dutch. There are only a limited number of books one can absorb; so hard choices have to be made. But these Flemish and…

    everyone and everything is a story

    oktober 21, 2022
    books, me, myself and I, stories
    diner a montreal, paris-besançon, philippe besson, un certain paul darrignan
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