some LANDSCAPES

There is an excellent new 'exhibition in a book' on the theme of Place put together by Tacita Dean and Jeremy Millar, published by T...

When art historians read changes in style as reflecting broader political changes it is often possible to argue from both ‘sides’. For examp...

Landscape artist Chris Drury is currently working in Antarctica and writing a blog (which looks rather like this one... except that he has...

Certain Trees was the title of an exhibition of 'the constructed book, poem and object 1964-2006' held at the Centre des livres d...

There is an interesting Tate Paper by Stephen Daniels on the photographer, antiquarian and promoter of ley lines, Alfred Watkins. It notes ...

Artists trying to find a new way of seeing the landscape may need to try something more unusual than standing and gazing at the view or wa...

There is a nice exhibition of Hiroshi Sugimoto photographs at the Hirshhorn Museum site. Here is how he introduces some of his seascapes: ...

I have been listening to The Owl's Map , an album on Ghost Box by Belbury Poly . It is is based on the fictitious 'ancient marke...

Leonardo da Vinci, Deluge over a City , 1517-18 The V&A exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design brought to...

Carrigskeewaun in County Mayo is a key landscape for the poet Michael Longley. There is a page on the Teachnet Ireland site that includes...

Among the many fascinating readings in Harrison, Wood & Geiger's Art in Theory 1648-1815 are two versions of a short article on the ...

Jonathan Richman has celebrated the landscape of New England in various songs over the years. For example, 'Twilight in Boston' is l...

There is a recording of Eavan Boland reading her poem 'That the Science of Cartography is Limited ' on the Norton site . There is a...

I have started adding labels to these posts, relating them to different types of landscape. This is not necessarily very helpful because, de...

Oslo's National Museum is organised very well on thematic grounds. There was a lot of criticism when Tate Modern opened with a Richard ...

Hooray the blog is back! I now seem to be able to get access to Beta Blogger through a Mozilla browser... anyway here's a quick post t...

As I am continuing to have problems logging in with the new Beta Blogger, I am having to suspend this blog. I cannot now access the Blog th...

In The Road to Oxiana (1937) Robert Byron visits the Omayad Mosque in Damascus. 'Originally, its bareness was clothed in a glitter...

In a new exhibition, Running Stitch , Jen Southern and Jen Hamilton are 're-configuring Brighton & Hove by 'capturing' its s...

Hudson River Landscape (1951) can be seen in the excellent David Smith retrospective at Tate Modern. A 'drawing in space', it has ...