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Adalbert Stifter's Rock Crystal , which I described in an earlier post , was originally part of a collection called Bunte Steine ( Colo...

Salvator Rosa, Self-Portrait , c1647 Source: Wikimedia Commons The Salvator Rosa exhibition about to finish at Dulwich and transfer to the ...

Apart from citing a few writers like Jonathan Bate, I haven't written much here about ecocriticism.  However, much interesting writing o...

  To the Small Publishers Fair at Conway Hall on Saturday, where I bought a copy of Englands Helicon (1600) from the Shearsman stall - mo...

We arrived for our holiday in St Ives this summer a few weeks too late for the Dexter Dalwood exhibition.  I was therefore glad when h...

On Monday last week I went to see Philip Gross reading from The Water Table and interviewed by Simon Armitage, one of the judges who awa...

To the South Bank Centre last night for the launch of a new anthology of prose and poetry about landscape and place - the second manifest...

Eadward Muybridge, Rekootoyen (Water Asleep)  Mirror Lake from the Western Bank, 1867 The Tate's Eadward Muybridge exhibition g...

W.S. Merwin, the current American poet laureate, long ago renounced the city for a life of poetic retreat on the island of Maui, where he w...

Albrecht Dürer, Dream Vision , 1525 There has not been much time for this blog of late as I've been working on a big publication th...

Last night I sat in a room full of people listening intently to the sound of an egg being fried.  We were at Cafe Oto for The Wire Salon, E...

George Henry, A Galloway Landscape , 1889 Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum While in Scotland I visited the Kelvingrove Museum's...

Inspired by a recent visit to Scotland, I have been reading the Yale edition of Dorothy Wordsworth's Recollections of a Tour Made in...

I have been kindly invited to go to Glasgow this week to take part in a conversation as part of the Values of Environmental Writing Research...

Alec Finlay and Ken Cockburn have now reached Raasay on the Road North .  Their most recent post pays tribute to Sorley MacLean (Somhairle...

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

A couple of years ago the Pushkin Press published a new translation of Der Hagestolz (1850) by Adalbert Stifter (1805-68).  Their edition ...

'I know a painting so evanescent that it is seldom viewed at all, except by some wandering deer. It is a river who wields the brush, a...

Francis Alÿs, The Loop , Tijuana - San Diego 1997 Postcard given free at the exhibition Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception One of ...

Near the start of this section of Civilisation (1969) we see Kenneth Clark sitting in a rowing boat discussing the 'revolution i...