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...

Many high profile reviews of Beyond Caravaggio have criticised it because it only contains six works by the master himself. However as the e...

M Hodge "Bear's Dream" 2012 It's taken me a year to finally get around to this piece but it somehow seems appropriate...

Just no. And no again! What is it about art, sculpture and architecture that really makes me tingle passionately? Why is it such an obs...

Thanks largely to a rediscovery of a love of free form dancing enhanced by fermented sugar beverages, art and writing has been rather negl...

  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...

I've finally done it. It's taken me nearly two months but I have just gone live with my first ever podcast. This has been a new ex...

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. ...

This is a short piece; perhaps musings on what might and should grow into a longer article. Sadly I just don't have the energy at the ...

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...

This isn't a post of note, more a note of a post. An indulgent weekend led to a moment of brilliance, or perhaps it was because I'm ...

The Elector of Saxony’s wire drawing bench (1565) is an extremely complicated piece of art and technology which remains relatively unknown...

I'm on the cusp of handing in my dissertation and to both my delight and dismay, I'm still finding potentially relevant interestin...

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