some LANDSCAPES

Saturday, October 25, 2025

Fireworks in the Himalayas

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I was curious to see the White Cube's Cai Guo-Qiang exhibition but conflicted after the recent controversy surrounding his firework per...
Sunday, October 19, 2025

Le voyage vertical

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Tatiana Trouvé, Le voyage vertical , 2022 from the series  Les dessouvenirs The Pinault Collection is currently hosting a major retrospectiv...
Saturday, October 18, 2025

Lovely is the hillside

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It could be said that a landscape view provides a crucial turning point in  Njál's saga . Gunnar, the reluctant warrior, is drawn into a...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

Grandi paesaggi

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Here I am a few days ago, posing for scale so that you can see how big these 18th century landscape paintings are. They are the work of Gius...
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Friday, September 26, 2025

White-Rock Shallows

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Pat Suet-Bik Hui, Painting with Poem by Wang Wei , 1995 This is one of the paintings on show in the Ashmolean at the moment, in a small exhi...
Monday, September 01, 2025

A glorious sunburst-streak

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The Wire magazine, which I referenced yesterday, has just put out its 500th issue. I started reading it in 1987 when I was a student, buyin...
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Singing Toward The Wind Now

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I was going to write here about Raven Chacon after seeing him perform at Tate Modern's Preemptive Listening Symposium in 2024. I didn...
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This blog explores landscape through the arts: painting, installation, photography, literature, music, film... I've also on occasion covered the creation or alteration of landscapes by architects, artists and garden designers. For the first year I did several short entries each week; since then I have reduced the frequency and some posts are a bit longer. In naming this site 'Some Landscapes' initially I just saw it as a few modest notes and didn't know if I'd keep it up. Of course it will always only cover 'some' landscapes, even though I occasionally like to think of it as an expanding cultural gazetteer. There are some maps and a chronology of posts that I did a while back but the best way of exploring is through the search function, labels or just browsing old posts. I started writing this blog using the name 'Plinius' (a little tribute to the younger and older Plinys) and am now rather attached to it as a 'nom de blog'. Comments are very welcome but are moderated to prevent spam. I used to post landscape stuff on Twitter but now use Bluesky: @andrew-ray.bsky.social.
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