Renaissance Utterances

  A Little Girl with a Basket of Cherries © National Gallery I’m not sure if two makes a series yet but despite holidays and work I’ve m...

From the natural open space of Green Park to the ordered splendour of Russell Square, it is hard to avoid London's parks and gardens. ...

It's rare that any lecture fails to spark a meteor shower of ideas but just occasionally I'm caught off guard. The LSE arranged ...

Can't resist this mirror So this is it. The concluding session of the Dresden Conference on Cabinets of Curiosity. That two day eve...

The penultimate talk which I want to cover here marks the descent into something much darker than death and memory; the creation of life....

From theoretical surrealist curiosity to artistic rational enquiry, Jane Wildgoose's presentation on the work which has arisen from h...

Donna Roberts's paper set out to encourage us to think critically about curiosity. The world appears to have rediscovered 'cabine...

All Things Strange And Beautiful I must confess to bunking off Robert Felfe's probably excellent second session presentation on &#...

  View from the theatre These are the first set of many notes taken at the Dresden Conference on the Cabinet of Curiosities in Contem...

Sometimes the unintended visits to a place turn out to be the highlights. Although I am here in Dresden on another mission entirely, the...

I'm currently looking at details which is my favourite part of art; looking for any clues to build up a better idea of what is going o...

Not distracted by the view. Oh no. When looking at art, the viewer should be encouraged to consider geographic issues, to enquire how fa...

In the heart of royal Dresden, along the Augustusstrasse , attached to the back of the Royal Mews, a 102 metre long ceramic mural dominate...

Altdorfer 'Landscape' 1518-20 It seems you can travel miles in search of a certain historical figure, and not realise that usefu...

Suleiman the Magnificent I hadn't been to one of the Birkbeck EMPHASIS seminars in ages. Every time I go to one, I leave with my he...

One of the unexpected highlights of the Royal Palace was the collection of prints drawings and photographs. On the top floor, like the pri...

Something tasteful today Today's objective was to find August, my Elector. It started out promising enough with the Royal Cabinet of...

I'm currently looking up at the sky. Reclining in the welcome silence of the hotel's quiet room with a cup of fruit tea. It'...

Leonhard Danner of Nuremberg (V&A ) There is something curiously and inevitably contrary about the figure of Leonhard Danner, the si...