Renaissance Utterances

'suspended' It has been an orgy of art since I arrived back in London just over a week ago. Russian/Communism inspired exhibitio...

Eleanor Morgan It's been my intention to write and record something about glass for a while now, primarily looking at it from a comb...

I was checking through some ancient work and found this about River Sounding , which was a joint venture between The Somerset House Trust ...

  "Yes," said Mr. Fawnhope. "There will be verdure, and that, I think, is what my soul craves. I, with my fair Cecilia, to...

I fulfilled an ambition at the weekend; to run down The Cut to Limehouse Basin, head on to Narrow Street via Ropemaker Fields, and then o...

Old and New Clare Style Collyer Bristow is home to a long-standing art gallery which presents the best and most interesting contemporary...

Buy a fine singing bird (1688) If you're an exotic creature, there's no trusting anything outside in January. From tiny tapirs ...

Malina Busch 'Fluorescent Blush' This review was going to be a celebration of summer colours; of shutting ones eyes against the ...

© The Trustees of the British Museum Perhaps I’m getting sensitive to the geography of art, or I’ve always fancied exotic places at lunc...

Jules Gervais Courtellemont, 1916  Cultural review shows entertain and repel me in equal measure. Sometimes the cynical, world weariness...

This afternoon I was lucky enough to be a part of the advance rape and pillage expedition to the new Sainsbury wing of the British Museum....

I don't know how long you have to do something for it to qualify as an old tradition in these electronic times. This is my third no...

Stephen Walter 'London Subterranea' (2012) After spending a virtual week in the troll-inhabited unmannerly wilderness of the int...

Fashion inspiration I've had a passive interest in historical fashion for a long time and it was very much cultivated by my marvello...

River Scene © The estate of L.S. Lowry I have a vague personal connection with  artist L.S. Lowry. He lived opposite my playgroup in th...

How many men have been injured opening bra straps? How many people currently have a cold at the moment? These aren't questions that ca...

***intermission*** As a bit of light artistic relief I have blogged on Cornish art over at Contrary Towers

Embodiment is the hot topic right now it seems. Whether it's the r etirement of the page 3 girl , the apparent increase in nudity in Lo...

After a normal day of Formula 1 photos , a university seminar on disturbing medical images  and a podcast about Galileo and psychopaths , I ...

On my course so far we’ve covered labels , art/space/geography and this week we are looking at the art of photography. So when I saw the ti...