some LANDSCAPES

 Mónica de Miranda, Salt Island , 2022 (detail) I recently went to look around RE/SISTERS A Lens on Gender and Ecology , at the Barbican. ...

Awrangzib Hunts Nilgais c. 1660 I've just read Julian Bell's new book on Adam Elsheimer, Natural Light . He talks about the paintin...

Sugimoto Seascapes at the Hayward Gallery I wrote about Hiroshi Sugimoto's seascape photographs here in 2007, referring to some online ...

I recently watched The Eight Mountains which I'd been looking forward to since reading Peter Bradshaw's review in The Guardian : T...

The cover of Simon Cutts' The Small Press Model is a photograph of his 'forgotten one-word poem' which can be found outside Skel...

  Kuncan, Origin of Immortals , 1661 I've been looking into the art of Kuncan (or Kun Can, 1623-73), a Buddhist monk who lived in and ar...

  West Lake, Hangzhou Source: Wikimedia I've just read Love & Time: The Poems of Ou-Yang Hsiu , a slim volume of J. P. Seaton trans...

I have been reading Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge , a fascinating account of late Ming courtesan culture, translated and edited by Wai-yee L...

Robert Macfarlane on Twitter, three days ago: Ah…Cormac McCarthy has died today. A giant of a writer, who wrote with a pen of iron, torqued ...

Photograph of the Rheinterrasse on the third floor of the Berlin Vaterland building, with its view overlooking the river between Sankt Goar ...

A few weeks ago I saw this at the National Gallery's excellent exhibition themed around Saint Francis of Assisi . It reminded me that I ...

“Jena before us in the lovely valley” This is the beginning of Gottfried Benn's poem 'Jena' (1926), translated by Michael Hoffma...

Last year I bought the latest New Arcadian Journal , Atlantic Flowers: The Naval Memorials of Little Sparta . 'The upland garden of Lit...

I have been reading Rob St John's Örö (available via Bandcamp ), a book based on fieldwork and experiments undertaken during two periods...

I had been looking forward to ' Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water ' at Pallant House but was sadly too ill to go down and see ...

The St. Elizabeth's Day Flood , c. 1490-95   During the night of 19 November 1421 a heavy storm caused rivers to surge, dikes to overflo...

  Dora Carrington, Tidmarsh Mill, c. 1918   I recently read the new Frances Spalding book The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Tw...

Paul Cézanne, Montagne Sainte-Victoire , c. 1890 This is a photo I took on my phone of a painting in the Tate's superb Cézanne exhibitio...

Today I found myself lying in bed with a cold, listening to an old album by Steven R. Smith, Autumn is the End (1998). The record label desc...