some LANDSCAPES

Expanding Horizons: Giovanni Battista Lusieri and the Panoramic Landscape, the most exciting art exhibition this year, will shortly be comin...

In May 1922 Vladimir Nabokov sat his finals at Cambridge and was relieved to find that one of the questions asked him to describe Plyushkin...

In 1994 the Belgian painter Marie Desbarax became bewitched by a certain landscape near the city of Nivelles. A text inspired by the pain...

Walking down the Kingsland Road last night towards the quadrivium that is Dalston Junction, I was following the route of the old Roman Ro...

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Sparks II , 1906 Perhaps the most fitting posthumous tribute to a landscape artist is to name a lan...

On the Shetland island of Unst   Before our summer holiday in the Shetland Islands I tried to do some background reading in Shetland...

'Always the green chaos rather than the printed map' - John Fowles  The Tree , the sea, the Cobb Last week in Lyme Regis I s...

Claude Monet, Étretat, la porte d'Aval: fishing boats leaving the harbour , c1885 This post begins with Claude Monet at É tretat,...

I'm not sure how big a bouncy castle has to be before it can be considered landscape architecture, but let's assume that Jeremy Dell...

I was going to photograph the view from Westminster Bridge this morning but we've been asked to work from home during the Olympics...

I've embedded above two versions of Fog Tropes , the original for brass sextet and a second version for strings commissioned by the...

We went along today to see the Olympics torch procession through Stoke Newington, but the big story this week has been around security, wit...

Two new translations of the poetry of Robert Walser have been published this year. Christopher Middleton's slim volume for New Direct...

"We really have to listen..."  Alice Oswald was talking on Tuesday evening about the need to get away from "a gentlemanly way...

Cold Mountain, Red Pine, Copper Canyon.  The Copper Canyon Press publish a beautiful edition of  the complete poems of Cold Mountain (Han...

In 1980 Miguel Angel Blanco retired to the woods of the Fuenfría Valley, in the Guadarrama Mountains outside Madrid.  One winter's day, ...

In 1969 Robert Smithson was invited to exhibit in an ICA show, ‘When Attitudes Become Form’, and so he and Nancy Holt took the opportunity t...

I last wrote about Edward Burtynsky here four years ago, after seeing Manufactured Landscapes . Some of the images in that film, like th...