some LANDSCAPES

"Time had gone soft at the crossroads..."  So begins Chanctonbury Rings , Justin Hopper's spoken word album, based on h...

The Living Stones (1957) is one of two illustrated travelogues written by surrealist Ithell Colquhoun in the mid 1950s and recently re-p...

Ian Nairn once described the view from 'decent quiet Duquesne Heights onto the roaring heart of Pittsburgh' as the epitome of terrib...

It is high time I drew attention here to the admirable Longbarrow Press , whose strapline is 'Poetry from the Edgelands'.  I rece...

This time last year I wrote a lengthy (for this blog) survey of landscape and music in 2013 (following similar but shorter posts in 2010 , ...

"We really have to listen..."  Alice Oswald was talking on Tuesday evening about the need to get away from "a gentlemanly way...

On Wednesday I managed to have a quick first look at 'The Robinson Institute ', Patrick Keiller's new exhibition for the Duv...

John Martin, The Bard , c1817 As the Tate Britain exhibition John Martin: Apocalypse comes to the end of its run, it would be interest...

About this time last year, influenced by all those end of year lists, I posted ten examples of landscape music released in 2010, along with...

I have been tipped off (thanks Hayden) to the rather surprising appearance on Thursday's Newsnight of a piece about Nick Papadimitriou ...

Excerpt from Perestroika (©2009 Sarah Turner)   Sight and Sound 's October 'Film of the Month' is Sarah Turner's Peres...

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

Roni Horn (discussed in my previous post) is one of many sources for Peter Ackroyd's Thames: Sacred River . He describes her book Anoth...

An interview in yesterday’s Guardian with Rachel Whiteread is headlined ‘Will Rachel Whiteread, unshowy as she is, be the Britartist who st...