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On Wednesday I managed to have a quick first look at 'The Robinson Institute ', Patrick Keiller's new exhibition for the Duv...

Paintings freeze the vision of landscape at a moment in time, whilst poems can convey the shifting impressions of a walk.  But a poem t...

Last night I was at Cafe Oto for The Wire Salon and a discussion of sound mapping , featuring artist Kathy Hinde , academic Joseph Kohlmaier...

"In a crowd, he that talks loudest, not he that talks best, is surest of commanding attention; and in an art exhibition, he that does n...

Here at winter's edge The coast line of spring Slowly emerges And the harsh cliffs of March Carve themselves upwards from Gal...

Werner Herzog has been invited to exhibit at the Whitney Biennial this year and, as you can see from the short interview above, he will...

Reeds at Snape, Sunday morning As promised last time, here are a few thoughts prompted by a weekend of reflections on water.  First ont...

In an earlier post I considered two examples of visual poetry in which words are placed on the page to convey the impression of a landscape...

Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) published his Nine Letters on Landscape Painting in 1830, prefaced by a letter from Goethe suggesting that the...

On a recent edition of The Freakier Zone, Professor Justin Spear introduced Radio 6 listeners to an 'armful of groovy soundtracks w...

Ferdinand Hodler, Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau above a sea of fog , 1908 Source: Wikimedia Commons A little Learning is a dang'rou...

Last night I watched Michelangelo Frammartino's film Le Quattro Volte on DVD and have been boring people all day trying to convin...

In the video clip embedded above the environmental philosopher David Abram talks about the way landscape no longer speaks directly to ...

Landscape can be a solace to the exile, but it can be hard to contemplate the beauty of lakes and mountains without thinking of home, or the...

The Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge is going to mount a small exhibition later this year, showing prints by two of the artists mentioned...

John Martin, The Bard , c1817 As the Tate Britain exhibition John Martin: Apocalypse comes to the end of its run, it would be interest...

I recently came upon a nice short essay by Kyle Gann called ' American Romanticism: Music vs. Painting '.  It discusses nineteenth c...

Rebecca Solnit's A Book of Migrations (1997) was reissued this year and classified as history/memoir rather than travel, though it is o...