Book Review: The Arcades Project.
Walter Benjamin had collated The Arcades Project [Das Passagenwerk] between 1927 and 1940. It is very much a book that …
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The Good and the Bad at Colinton Dell.
The good and the bad at Colinton Dell. Let us start with the bad, otherwise my readers are bound to …
Self-Isolation Artwork.
I was drawing this whilst suffering and recovering from (probable) COVID-19. For me, this image encapsulates everything about the current …
Arts Review: “Bacon en Toutes Lettres” at the Pompidou Centre.
Francis Bacon’s paintings are a source of such anxiety because they flout all of the previously understood etiquette relating to …
Ugly Bunch.
It was late afternoon and I was in the Bethany Shop on the Causewayside. I did not know what exactly …
Arts Review: Victoria Crowe, 50 Years of Painting.
With the Scottish artist Victoria Crowe, you can tour a lifetime of her paintings and emerge afterwards struggling to account …
Life and Death and Elisabeth Frink.
Elisabeth Frink was a schoolgirl during the Second World War when she was evacuated out of London to the Devon …
YouTube Review: u m a m i.
u m a m i is the YouTube channel of the artist, animator and musician Justin Tomchuk, who is based …
Arts Review: V&A Dundee.
It is obvious from the get-go that the new Victoria and Albert Museum is here to rescue Dundee. It could …
Arts Review: the Knife Angel.
The countryside around the British Ironwork Centre is big and fair. There are immense blowsy trees that stand watching almost …
Arts Review: David Forster’s Edgelands.
“Is that…? No, it can’t be… Oh no, it definitely is!” It’s tippex! I should state immediately that I have …
Should St Peter’s Seminary be Left to the Wilderness?
St Peter’s Seminary stands ruined in the woods outside Cardross. It is a two hour and twenty minute train ride …
What is the Use of “Artists for Brexit”?
Let me plunge you back into the cauldron of 2014. Scotland is in the midst of – of all things! …
A Christmas Story (4/4): Unwrapping the Gift Under the Tree.
The feeling that Reggie Quintus is currently experiencing is as powerful as grief, though it has crept up on him …
A Christmas Story (3/4): Chainsaws!
It is midwinter in Berlin and the cold is as dry and fine as powder. The neighbourhoods north of the …
