some LANDSCAPES

Stendhal's memoir The Life of Henry Brulard describes his childhood in Grenoble in the 1790s, followed by his departure for Paris and en...

When I reached the point of sand jutting out among the waves, the spell of the place descended upon me with a positive shock. No mere “scene...

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

Hieronymus Bosch, The Tree-Man , c. 1505 Source: Wikimedia Commons Joseph Leo Koerner's magisterial Bosch & Bruegel: From Ene...

Gu Kaizhi, The Nymph of the Luo River , Song Dynasty copy of a 4th century original (detail) I love the magical green landscape into w...

The Documenta 14 catalogue is organised in a way that appeals to my fondness for chronologies - each of the 163 living artists is allotted...

I have written here before about the connection between land art and The Velvet Underground: Walter de Maria, best known for his Lightning ...

 Ambrosius Holbein, The Island of Utopia , 1516 2016 marks the five hundredth anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia.  The book has li...

Laurie Clark, To The Hills , 2006 A recent survey by Jeremy Cooper, Artists' Postcards: A Compendium , divides the field into ten c...

For the past week I have been immersed in the Catalan landscape described by Josep Pla in his remarkable book, The Gray Notebook .  The NYRB...

'Narrated in fruity tones by future Poet Laureate Cecil Day Lewis, Figures in a Landscape offers a poetic portrait of sculptor Barbara ...

From the film Possession (2002): poets Christabel LaMotte and Randolph Henry Ash These two fictional nineteenth century poets in A. S....

 The river at Pyrford Place, where John Donne lived at the start of the 17th century John Donne's sixth Elegy contains a remark...

Looking at players in the World Cup this month I have wondered whether those reports last year that we have reached 'peak beard' ca...

'Autumn Landscape' A sample page from Spring Essence: The Poetry of Hồ Xuân Hương   made available on translator John Bala...

The Hayward Gallery's current exhibition Ana Mendieta: Traces is well worth a visit.  Her Siluetas (1973-80) were an important con...

Emmanuel Maignan, Saint Francis of Paola (detail) , 1642 I have talked here before about landscapes that are transformed into bodies, ...

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