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...

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...

Where is the hunt? You know me, I relish a good connection. I went looking for a geographical connection between Elector August I in Dre...

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...

Although the intellectual life of the artist is crucial, my focus this weekend has been on the patron and his concerns. I'm coming rou...

In a week that has seen tentative steps towards a cure for a devastating disease , unforgivable hypocrisy in the church and the cardinals ge...

Once again the happy connections that are constantly weaving themselves around me struck this evening. I'd done a favour for one of my ...