David Plante at home in London
Sunday, September 22nd, 2013

“A Bright Globe of Everything”: Extracts from “Becoming A Londoner”

Author reads from first volume of diaries at New York Public Library this Tuesday

Alberto Giacometti, Portrait of David Sylvester, 1960. Oil on canvas, 45 11/16 x 35 1/16 inches. Private Collection
Sunday, July 8th, 2001

The Golden Lion of English Artwriting: David Sylvester, 1924-2001

he described art as well as any writer in English since Ruskin.