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...

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...

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

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