some LANDSCAPES

OK third time lucky. I've written this post twice now and both times it's been deleted - I don't know if other blogspot users ar...

In one of my earliest posts here I talked about the wide range of landscapes on show at the Royal Academy's 2005 exhibition China: The ...

Britain's rural landscape is a constant presence in Rob Young's exploration of visionary folk music, Electric Eden . His prologue...

The Tate's Susan Hiller exhibition begins with Dedicated to the Unknown Artists (1972-76) an installation first shown at the Gardner C...

I read Judith Schalansky's Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I have not visited and never will last month, but keep flicking ba...

I have been reading about contemporary Chinese artists this week - disturbing news of the detention of Ai Weiwei and an interesting survey ...

Specimens of the early English poets , 1790, bound by Edwards of Halifax.  Fore-edge painting of the house of Sir Thomas Claverings, Ox...

The Clyde at New Lanark, March 2011 On Saturday August 20th 1803, Coleridge and the Wordsworths arrived in Lanark.  William headed of...

Richard Skelton is interviewed by Clive Bell in the latest issue of The Wire , talking about landscape and loss and photographed on Anglezar...

Harriet Tarlo's anthology of radical landscape poetry The Ground Aslant , which I previewed in an earlier post , has now been publishe...

There is a short poem by C. P. Cavafy, ' The Morning Sea ' (1915), in which the poet stops and gazes out from the yellow shore on th...

The exterior panels of Northern Renaissance altarpieces were sometimes painted in what my computer would call 'grayscale' but what a...

I have enjoyed reading Romantic Moderns, which has much to say about the revival of interest in the English landscape before and duri...

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

We made our way to Suffolk last weekend for the third manifestation of the Re-Enchantment project , dedicated to W.G. Sebald and landscape. ...

As I write this I'm listening to the London Sinfonietta recording of Messiaen's Des canyons aux étoiles... , which was inspired...