some LANDSCAPES

A few weeks ago I saw this at the National Gallery's excellent exhibition themed around Saint Francis of Assisi . It reminded me that I ...

In his book Medieval Modern: Art Out of Time , Alexander Nagel writes about the way ideas and practises associated with relics, chapels, mos...

A programme about art in the landscape can currently be seen on the BBC iPlayer: Forest, Field & Sky: Art Out of Nature .  It is present...

I've been reading the late Dennis O'Driscoll's Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney .  Among the interesting things I ...

Richard Long and Giuseppe Penone both came to prominence in the late sixties making art in the landscape, and their most recent work is curr...

On Friday I got to see extracts from Patrick Keiller's forthcoming film, Robinson in Ruins, at the AHRC's 'Art and Environment...

Today I went to the Small Publishers Fair , an annual event which I based posts on last year and the year before . Among today's purch...

The catalogue to the Richard Long exhibition Heaven and Earth, which I discussed here recently, draws attention to Long's early career ...

Earlier this week we took a day off work and went to see the new Richard Long exhibition at Tate Britain, Heaven and Earth . I was prepare...

Still on the subject of Land Art , discussed in the last posting, I thought it was interesting that Ben Tufnell divided environmental art in...

The other day I was talking to a friend about the fashion for participative art works. This kind of relational aesthetics opens up many in...

Among critical writing dealing with the origins of land art, Rosalind Krauss’s essay ‘Sculpture in the Expanded Field’ is particularly inte...

You can download for free from Ubuweb an MP3 of Richard Long reciting his text piece Desert Circle . And if you buy Hamish Fulton’s book ...