Where to start? Well with Banksy of course. His playful take on Vemeer’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’, ‘Girl With A Pierced Eardrum’ has got an overnight makeover by the master of stealth himself. Bringing her bang up-to-date into the Coronavirus torn 21 st  Century. She now dons a blue face mask, adhering to one of the recommended remedies to fight the virus. While still ignoring another. She’s outside. Silly noodle! SofART? If the audience won’t come to art, art will come to the audience. With self-isolation the order of the day, events all over the world, have been cancelled. The arts have been forced to reinvent themselves, which could be, in the long run be a good thing. Artists who are ingenious by nature, have picked up the pandemic gauntlet and proved, that you can’t keep a good artist down. It’ll take more than a pesky pestilence, plague or pandemic to beat a creative mind into submission.  Creative Minds Always whirring!   Beethoven’s uplifting ‘Ode to ...

Self-isolation across the nation. I have to admit to be more of a Bowie kinda guy but Slade’s 1972 foot-stomper ‘Mama Weer All Crazee Now!’, recently uploaded from some forgotten school memory, directly into my self-isolating bonce. Who’d’ve thought, Noddy and Jim’s teeny classic, decades after being penned, would perfectly describe what a bemused world population is currently experiencing? International ‘Climbing Walls Championships'.  Slowly but surely cogs are beginning to come off spindles between our collective ears. COVID19 lock-down has caused some ordinary Terry and Junes to begin to crawl up the wall, over the ceiling and down the other side of the room. Their homes have been slowly transforming into prison cells but some refuse to be caged in. Like the neighbour caught heading out, ninja-like, disguised as a bush! Joking aside, more of these click-bait pranks are actually going to have us all cooped-up for even longer. COVIDIVORCE?   Relationships are being pu...