On Friday night we went down to London to see the final night of the English National Opera’s run of Doctor Atomic, the new opera from John Adams with a libretto by Peter Sellars. The opera focuses on the days and hours leading up to first test firing of an atomic bomb at the Trinity site on 15 July 1945.

Something a little different, my dad's work features in the Winter 2008 issue of Art News New Zealand by Rob Garrett, who has a copy of the article on his web site. Dad designed eight stained glass windows for Westlake Boys High School in Auckland, New Zealand. Rob Garrett describes them thus: They are gorgeous to look at (the picture below shows them before they were mounted in the school hall).