Renaissance Utterances

How do you view the world when you're five years old? How much of that youthful joie de vivre do you - and can you - retain as you h...

This is hopefully part of a longer piece generally, but I thought it would be a positive way to embark on this Friday blog challenge. Sin...

A short hiatus is occurring as I am actually in transit. I have no idea what is going to occur on this blog in the future. Art, libraria...

Sam - alone; sole; only Samoća - solitude; loneliness Samostan - monastery Samovoljan - self willed; obstinate  In a Split art ...

I don't usually write about music because I find it extraordinarily difficult to articulate, unless in poetry. When I have talked about...

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...

My first non-librarian/KM conference is finally over. My experience was mixed; I'm returning with a phone full of Evernotes and a hea...

There are a number of reasons why a few days in Berlin is a Good Thing. The least important one, despite it being the main event, is the r...

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 ...

The penultimate talk which I want to cover here marks the descent into something much darker than death and memory; the creation of life....

  View from the theatre These are the first set of many notes taken at the Dresden Conference on the Cabinet of Curiosities in Contem...

  © Jagoda Kaloper-Tajder In true Renaissance woman style, I'm worried  I'm over-intellectualising my new found enjoyment of a f...

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 ...

Storm clouds gathering Apparently some small world events have broken out whilst I've been studying. Thankfully my work enables me r...

Books…I’m not going to tell you precisely how much I’ve spent on books this past three months. Mostly because I don’t know and doing the m...

Internet Watch Foundation The Internet Watch Foundation has been working to remove child abuse images from the internet since 1996. Peop...

Something tasteful today Today's objective was to find August, my Elector. It started out promising enough with the Royal Cabinet of...

I'm currently looking up at the sky. Reclining in the welcome silence of the hotel's quiet room with a cup of fruit tea. It...

It seems I’ve spent the last few years in one of three states; eagerly anticipating study, screaming because I was in the middle of study,...

Perhaps it's just me, or the pernicious influence of academia but sometimes the actual paintings can get lost in the amount of theory ...