some LANDSCAPES

Walter Crane's 1907 frontispiece to Robert Louis Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) Here is Robert L...

Gerardo Dottori, Self Portrait , (1928) Comune di Perugia This summer at the Estorick Collection you can see a thought-provoking exhib...

Rebecca Solnit published two essays on contemporary American landscape photography in Creative Camera magazine, in 1993 and 1998,...

I have just finished the Jim Crace novel Harvest : 'Sometime in the pre-industrial period, an isolated and self-sufficient English v...

Looking at players in the World Cup this month I have wondered whether those reports last year that we have reached 'peak beard' ca...

Last year I asked here 'why isn't the art of Recording Britain better known?'  Well Sheffield's Millenium Gallery is cu...

The valley of the River Duddon In 1820 William Wordsworth published The River Duddon, A Series of Sonnets .  As Stephen Gill points ou...

We looked in on the Photographers Gallery yesterday to see the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize contenders.  I was particularly interested i...

The latest New York Review of Books carries a  piece by Daniel Mendelsohn on Patrick Leigh Fermor and the posthumous publication of Th...

We were at St Luke's on Sunday, the converted church near the Barbican which we last visited to hear Terje Isungset play his ice ...

Nicolas Poussin, Landscape with a Calm , 1650-1 Source: Wikimedia Commons Alain de Botton's recent ideas for making art more popu...

During our trip to the Lake District last week we stayed in Coniston and went to visit Ruskin's old home at Brantwood (above).  There...

A poetry reading by Thomas A. Clark is a rare and special occasion, so we took leave this week and headed up to Grasmere to hear him.  Earli...

We were in Margate recently and saw the new installation by Edmund de Waal, atmosphere .  As usual in his recent work, the vitrines...

' Blood Meridian is also a novel about place, about the landscape of Texas and Chihuahua and Sonora; a kind of anti-pastoral novel...

Paolo Veronese, The Annointing of David , c. 1550 During the spiritualism craze that swept Victorian London in the 1860s, John Ruskin w...

  Carl Philipp Fohr, The Ruins of Hohenbaden , (1814-15) The Morgan Library & Museum Today was the last day to see A Dialogue wit...

  Earlier this month at the Baths of Caracalla we saw this spiral arrangements of Roman stone - like a Richard Long sculpture re-imagin...