some LANDSCAPES

Here's an idea for an art installation.  You pass into a room between the trunks of two pine trees that show signs of having been cut in...

Earlier this month I received an email from cultural geographer Hayden Lorimer tipping me off to a Radio 4 programme he had written calle...

I was at Tate Modern on Monday for the inaugural talk in a new American Artist Lecture Series, organised by the US embassy.  The ambassador...

We made it to Margate on Monday for the last day of the Hamish Fulton exhibition.  As you can see from the picture above, it was paired w...

I've been getting interested in the work of Finnish artist Caroline Slotte , who aims to reveal 'the poetry of everyday objects'...

In 1973 Gerhard Richter made a series of paintings based on close-up photographs of oil paintings.  According to Mark Godfrey in 'Damage...

A while ago I mentioned an essay by Kathleen Jamie, 'On Rona', and I've just read an expanded version of it in her new book ...

There is a wonderful description of landscape design in Cao Xueqin's Hong Lou Meng ('Dream of the Red Chamber', c. 1760 - transl...

Camille Pissarro, The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning (1899) During a pleasant sunny day last Saturday in the Tuileries Ga...

If you are interested in the depiction of strange mountainscapes, it is worth looking out for art inspired by the Virgin of Montserrat, p...

'Clouds over the Xiao and Xiang Rivers' ( Xiaoxiang Shuiyun ) is one of the most famous qin melodies, composed at the end of t...

The River Struga, Saxony I sometimes wonder how much interesting writing on landscape in other literatures remains inaccessible to a m...

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...