some LANDSCAPES

  In the late 1930s comparisons were often made between new art and ancient landscapes. In  British Art: Ancient Landscapes  Sam Smiles cite...

 Mónica de Miranda, Salt Island , 2022 (detail) I recently went to look around RE/SISTERS A Lens on Gender and Ecology , at the Barbican. ...

I recently watched The Eight Mountains which I'd been looking forward to since reading Peter Bradshaw's review in The Guardian : T...

  I remembered how from the air the valleys, hills and rivers gained a certain distinction but wholly lost that quality which is perceived b...

In July 1942, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Tullio Crali published in Rome a Futurist Manifesto entitled 'Plastic Illusionism of War...

I thought I would follow up my last post on Katie Paterson with something about James Turrell, whose light works I was reminded of when l...

It could be argued that John and Yoko made a form of landscape art in Apotheosis (1970), their seventeen minute experimental film of the...

If you have access to the BBC iPlayer you can see Andrew Graham-Dixon's latest series, an attempt to tell the story of the Art of Fra...

We had a family DVD viewing this weekend: Karel Zeman's Bláznova kronika ( A Jester's Tale ), a 1964 Czech film about a peasa...

I have not yet read any obituaries in the national media for David Blackburn, whose passing was reported last month in the Huddersfield E...

Francesco Gonin, View of Lake Como , 1840  (illustration for chapter 1 of Alessandro Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi )    'Tha...

In his history of ballooning, Falling Upwards , Richard Holmes mentions 'the first aerial drawings ever made from a balloon basket...

Our balloon ride over the Garrotxa Whilst in Spain last month we took to the air in a balloon.  I also read Richard Holmes' enterta...

The Royal Academy's Richard Diebenkorn exhibition divides neatly into three rooms, the first covering his early abstract period in A...

Gerardo Dottori, Self Portrait , (1928) Comune di Perugia This summer at the Estorick Collection you can see a thought-provoking exhib...

I have just finished the Jim Crace novel Harvest : 'Sometime in the pre-industrial period, an isolated and self-sufficient English v...

There are some interesting things in the V&A's current exhibition, Light from the Middle East: New Photography : Tal Shochat'...

We went along today to see the Olympics torch procession through Stoke Newington, but the big story this week has been around security, wit...