some LANDSCAPES

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

Back in 1965 the ICA organised an exhibition called 'Between Poetry and Painting' which included work by Ian Hamilton Finlay. Fort...

In a previous post here I quoted an extract from Gilbert White's A Natural History of Selborne , which included a proposal: "Shoul...

The BBC has recently been running a Poetry Season . I didn't get to see all of it, but made a point of watching Simon Armitage on Ga...

To imprint the landscape on a work of art somehow, rather than copy it in paint or describe it in words, seems a natural instinct for a land...

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...

In his most recent Guardian column Charlie Brooker reminisced about compiling C90s for friends and mentioned that something similar was pos...

We watched Eric Rohmer's The Romance of Astrea and Celadon last night. As Peter Bradshaw wrote in his review last year: 'it is a...

In Garden Perfections: The Practice of Garden Theory , John Dixon Hunt identifies the cultural landscape (agriculture, urban development, ro...

In Landscape and Western Art , Malcolm Andrews mentions 'The People's Choice' project in which Alex Melamid and Vitaly Komar h...

Much has been written about the return to comfort brands in this recession (promoted by retro advertising) and an increase in English holida...

Zora Palova, Virtual Reality , 1999 I took the photograph above at Goodwood Sculpture park a few years ago. The Cass Sculpture Foundat...

I've talked before about the way the names of certain landscapes have particular resonance for poets and artists (e.g. Edward Thomas ). ...

I couldn't help being reminded a bit of Bouvard and Pécuchet (see previous post) while watching on Friday an entertaining documentary a...

Encouraged by Geoff Manaugh's defence of the practice, I have followed the example of some of my favourite blogs and started a Some Lan...

One more riverine post before I leave the subject for a bit... Colin Sackett has kindly sent me his River Axe Crossings , a visual sur...

Having mentioned last time Alice Oswald's poem for the Severn Project, I'm going to talk here about The River's Voice , a whole...

I have just read Alice Oswald's new book, A Sleepwalk on the Severn . I've written here before about her earlier river poem...

Beethoven wrote his Pastoral Symphony in 1807-8, but as Elizabeth Schwarm Glesner writes on the Classical Music Pages , 'this was certa...

When I think of ECM records I tend to imagine covers showing snowy landscapes, like this one. This is probably because I tend to associate...