some LANDSCAPES

Among the distant ancestors of television, the eighteenth century rouleaux transparents of Louis Carrogis (known by the name of Carmont...

After the defeat of the French army and the German occupation, Francis Ponge set out, travelling by foot and bicycle, to reach the Free Z...

   Still from Ka Mountain by OpenEndedGroup In 1972 Robert Wilson and his avant-garde theatre group the Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds...

One misty September morning in 1999 on the island of Naxos, my girlfriend and I set off in a taxi to find the kouros of Melanes.  As we drov...

The strange and beautiful Hypnerotomachia Poliphili , published by Aldus Manutius in Venice in December 1499 and written by the monk Fran...

 The Ben Greet Players in scenes from As You Like It Photographs from The Craftsman , September 1907 In 1886 the English actor and i...

Having mentioned Silt last week, I come now to Silt Road , a new book kindly sent me by Charles Rangeley-Wilson .  It is 'The Story ...

I am not sure how many artists are currently working in the micro genre of landscape photography digitally altered to incorporate charts ...

Federico Barocci, The Annunciation , 1582-4 Critics have been queuing up to praise the National Gallery's current exhibition, ...

Robert Macfarlane on The Broomway, photographed by David Quentin If you've read The Old Ways you'll know that Robert Macfarla...

Perhaps there are still lovely, overlooked landscapes to be found, even if they are only hidden away in paintings.  Ingrid D. Rowland descri...

“There’s nothing more boring on this earth than to have to read the description of an Italian journey, except maybe to have to write one...

 Kelly Richardson, Leviathan , 2011 Image courtesy of the artist and Birch Libralato Originally commissioned by Artpace San Antonio Ph...

It is now ten years since Cornelia Parker caused some controversy with The Distance (A Kiss with String Attached) , in which she wrapped Rod...

Thomas Joshua Cooper, Ritual Object  (Message to Donald Judd and Richard Serra), Derbyshire, 1975 ©Thomas Joshua Cooper, Courtesy Hau...

There are some interesting things in the V&A's current exhibition, Light from the Middle East: New Photography : Tal Shochat'...

Just a brief post to let readers know that I have now completed a new version of the index to this blog .  I had realised that I was no ...

Ma Yuan (1160–1225), The Yellow River Breaches its Course It would be impossible to summarise the career of Liu Tieh-yün (1857-1909) br...

I spent Friday and Saturday at In The Field , a symposium on the art and craft of field recording. During the two days we heard about a ...

Emmanuel Maignan, Saint Francis of Paola (detail) , 1642 I have talked here before about landscapes that are transformed into bodies, ...