“... Babel-like views of Céret and Cagnes, feral trees and spectral dwellings, portraits of anonymous locals, a weird series of chefs and bakers and hotel pages and choristers – a pretext, it has been said, for making paintings that were white with absences, or red with exceptions.Everything from his hand is striking, but especially his ever-raw ...”

“... by the 17th-century Dutch painter Floris van Dijck, and the spectacularly eccentric (and currently anonymous) 16th-century Virgin and Child with Saints Louis and Margaret, with its grotesque dragon at the bottom of the frame. A View of the Sky from a Prison Window, both in its modest dimensions – no larger than a sheet of A4 paper – and plain subject ...”

“... among institutional investors. Users of the service, called the Crossing Network, could submit anonymous bids to buy or offers to sell shares after the NYSE and other public trading venues had closed. The user simply entered the number of shares he or she wished to buy or sell; the price of the shares was always that day’s price at the end of public ...”

“... the audience is directly addressed from the stage, this audience is conceived as a composite, anonymous creature – and when actors, visited later in their dressing-rooms, politely say, ‘You were a wonderful audience,’ it isn’t the individual spectator who is being praised. By convention, each member of an audience is assumed to be either invisible ...”

“... cheerful scapegoat, keeping roguish writers in line and protecting editors from vigilante readers, anonymous and grateful for a week full of happy moments of correcting misspelled place names. Luce’s rival at the New Yorker, Harold Ross, set up his own department in 1927. He made a habit of mocking other magazines’ errors and couldn’t leave himself open ...”

“... powerful Rembrandt-like qualities and find touches and ways of working that might identify the anonymous worker who made ...”

“... how much more multi can tasking get? Then there’s a phenomenon called ‘noting’, a form of anonymous flirting in the more popular reading rooms, Humanities I and II, or Hum One and Hum Two, as they’re called. You’re seen, then there’s a note on your desk, you have no idea who did the noting. Nor do the guards at each reading-room entrance who ...”

“... synonymous with mental illness itself; one thinks of Tom o’Bedlam, who urges his listeners in an anonymous 18th-century ballad: ‘Come dame or maid, be not afraid/Poor Tom will injure nothing.’ Matthews, as well as working on the air loom, made beautiful plans for a new Bedlam, since by the early 1800s the baroque palace of an asylum, designed by Robert ...”

“... and digital animations of built and unbuilt work. The paintings are highly finished, with a neat, anonymous surface. In texture and size they look, at first glance, like very close-grained, asymmetric versions of one of Bridget Riley’s prismatically divided, coloured abstracts. But these images do not read as flat surfaces; they are accounts of a ...”

“... the women. Rembrandt shows a crowd – the individuals we can name are hardly more prominent than anonymous bystanders. Of the three, Rubens seems least sincere, the most theatrical in the sense that what he is offering could be a tableau set up with models. When you look at the way he put his paintings together you begin to understand why his statement might ...”

“... between solid structures and scene-painting. The city has become a print-substrate, an almost anonymous structure which you read by way of notices, badges, signs, logos and banners. The battle between one message and another has escalated. There is a descending order of seriousness from the permanent to the ephemeral, and an order of conspicuousness ...”

“... discovery, or perhaps better say ‘self-admission’, that he was a homosexual. Opportunities for anonymous meetings, rapid switches of identity and habituation to the world of the covert signal and the shared code were to increase as the crisis of the Thirties became deeper. From his shabby rural retreat in Maryland, he made various theatrical forays into ...”

“... enigmatic answer, but he lets it pass. As soon as John Self arrives in New York, he starts getting anonymous telephone calls; well, not quite anonymous: ‘Just call me Frank.’ Frank also says, ‘I’m the guy whose life you fucked up,’ and he regularly taunts Self for his drunkenness and gluttony. He berates ...”

“... Tory MPs confirmed ...’ ‘Cabinet colleagues made it clear ... ’. By the first Sunday these anonymous, but undoubtedly senior figures were, as the saying goes, singing like canaries. The Sunday Times’s lead story (‘Top Tories tell PM to sack Parkinson’) quoted six unnamed Tory MPs, ranging from ‘A Tory Privy Councillor’ to ‘An MP from the ...”

“... Lehmann had praised it; Leonard Woolf wanted to publish it. The story was Olivia; the author, anonymous on publication in 1949, was Dorothy Strachey Bussy, Lytton Strachey’s sister. Olivia is a piece of spirited homage, by a woman both spirited and prone to homage. Dorothy Strachey had some of her brother’s susceptibility to surroundings and ...”