some LANDSCAPES

Next month a Joan Jonas retrospective is due to open at Tate Modern - you can read an interview in Tate Etc.   I should probably wait ...

Joseph Anton Koch, The Schmadribach Waterfall above Lauterbrunnen, c. 1793 Last month the Evening Standard carried a headline saying t...

  Yosa Buson, Liu Bei visited Zhuge Liang in his hermitage three times , 18th century Source: Wikimedia Commons This beautiful winte...

I have been immersed in Athanasius Kircher's Theatre of the World , a (literally) wonderful and wittily-written book about the great ...

In 2011, Australian harpist Alice Giles got the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of her geologist grandfather Cecil Madigan, who ...

Yesterday evening I listened yesterday to a recent episode of ' Late Junction ' in which Anne Hilde Neset was taken by Jana Wind...

Gherardo Cibo, Men Collecting Specimens on a Hillside , 16th century Source: British Library Twitter feed This illuminated manusc...

"The sixth storm, rain. Just barely saved the boat. The sea like a vortex, the surf like cannon fire. The tent broke. Wonderfully ...

Today I launched a new initiative, to post 365 landscapes on Twitter over the course of 2018.  In doing this I am using a format (see abo...

  Josef Kuwasseg, The Period of the Muschelkalk , c. 1850 Source: The Universalmuseum Joanneum   This remarkable vision of a prehist...

Lucas de Heere, Stonehenge , c. 1572 Images: Wikimedia Commons In British Art: Ancient Landscapes , a catalogue published last year ...

Jan Van Eyck, The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin (detail - full picture below), c. 1435-7 Source: Wikimedia Commons Earlier this year I...

'Cliffs stand on both sides like parallel walls.  Here it is so narrow, so very narrow, writes one traveller, that one not only sees bu...

I bought this book at the recent Small Publishers Fair : a selection of classical Chinese verse translated into Scots , with English ver...

Rachel Whiteread, Chicken Shed , 2017 This post can be read as a sequel to one I wrote nine years ago on Rachel Whiteread's move ...