Renaissance Utterances

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

This is strange. I’ve been to many lectures recently but a mild panic about actually having to learn stuff for my skipper exams ensured al...

Cursed Crew (2013) I took my new language on an artistic field trip to Wandsworth on Tuesday evening. Kristin Hjellegjerde's gallery...

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

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 ...

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...

Too many lectures not enough art was the verdict yesterday. With the coming of the darkness, rather than listening to words, it was time ...

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

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

Ruth Claxon 'Nest (Banana Bird)' (2009) Finally, the moment for which we have all been waiting: Spring is here, everything is co...

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...

'Hands' French, c18th, Richard Day I am lucky enough to work in a place with an idiosyncratic and eclectic take on the arts. A ...

Art is supposed to be an all encompassing sensory experience. When I came across Olafur Eliasson's 'Model of a Timeless Garden' ...

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...

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

It's almost Valentines Day and warmth, Spring sunshine, tiny fluttering love birds (sparrows if I'm being honest) are in evidence in...

I have been grappling with space for weeks so the thought of examining the art/science of the human body was appealing, something on a sca...

Despair in all its forms have been troubling me in the last few weeks. It's sad to see someone you care about come apart at the seams an...