some LANDSCAPES

Last week the BBC published an interesting article by Paul Cooper on the theme of ruins and Arabic writing.  He notes that the 'motif o...

We enjoyed a family day trip to Hastings at the weekend, where I am pleased to say I was victorious at crazy golf.  As a child I always ima...

Thomas Cole, River in the Catskills , 1843 Source: Wikimedia Commons What was the first appearance of a train in a painting? Most peo...

Shibata Zeshin, Deer in a Forest , c. 1880s Source: Wikimedia Commons This week I attended the opening gala concert of the 2018 World...

Pieter Breugel the Elder, The Hunters in the Snow (Winter) , 1565 Source Wikimedia Commons To follow up my previous post , drawing on...

Hieronymus Bosch, The Tree-Man , c. 1505 Source: Wikimedia Commons Joseph Leo Koerner's magisterial Bosch & Bruegel: From Ene...

Isabelle Bird, Trackers Houses on the Banks of the Yangtze , 1896 Source: The Ammonite Press . In sketching, a landscape is represen...

I am over halfway through the year now in my project to tweet a landscape a day . Looking back to January 1st when I launched this initi...

Illustration from L e Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1498 Source: John Rylands Library I have wri...

Claude Lanzmann died this week - obituaries can be read here , here and here .  For all the praise that Shoah received, it can still fee...

Heidegger thought that all of Georg Trakl's poetry was really one long poem, and perhaps it could be said that all of his poetry take...

I wrote here a few weeks ago about two of the Tacita Dean exhibitions in London this year; this post is about the third one, ' Landscap...

I've been twice now to see Charmed Lives in Greece , a highly enjoyable (free) exhibition at the British Museum celebrating the cre...

The Dulwich Picture Gallery's Edward Bawden exhibition has a room devoted to 'Spirit of Place'.  It includes 'Houses at Iro...

Harriet Gouldsmith, A View of Hampstead Heath Looking Towards Cannon Place , 1818 I recently came across a curious publication in which...

Utagawa Hiroshige, Hiratsuka on the Tokaido , 1833–1834 The Public Domain Review is a constant source of fascinating material and I tho...

Paul Nash, Event on the Downs , 1934 The Tacita Dean exhibition Landscape starts today, but before I get to that, I wanted to mention...