2017

Wood on the Downs

Wood On The Downs After Paul Nash by Martin Malone   We have been here before. Uffington, Hackpen, Grim’s Ditch,…

8 years ago

Shirt

March 25th marks the anniversary of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire. In Shirt Robert Pinsky weaves in the Triangle Factory…

8 years ago

Consumed by Hate

Imagine being so consumed with racial hatred that you travel all the way from Maryland specifically on a mission to…

8 years ago

About Suffering They Were Never Wrong

About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place…

8 years ago

Killer Apps and Slideshows

Nobody has actually died from watching a slide show presentation. That whole Death by Powerpoint thing was much exaggerated. What's…

8 years ago

Time to Make it Happen

I did not attend the NAIS Annual Conference this year - first time for many years - so I don't…

8 years ago

The #Resistance is #TheMajority

One of the great pleasures of the age of instant and ubiquitous access to information is being able to re-connect…

8 years ago

Siracusa: “My sins are all mortal.”

Caravaggio is one of the bad boys in the history of art with a biography so outlandish it reads like…

8 years ago

Palermo: No Surface Left Unadorned

The Palatine Chapel is one of those must-see places if ever you have the chance.  It was commissioned by the…

8 years ago

Palermo: The Art of Learning

The Gallery of Modern Art is located inside the restored 15th century convent of Sant'Anna and has many works of…

8 years ago

Palermo: Markets and Mosaics

Palermo has three outdoor markets and we managed to hit all of them. Two we found by design while foraging…

8 years ago

Palermo: Puppets and Piazzas

It rarely snows in Palermo but I was pleased to see the universal winter snowflakes on the windows of the…

8 years ago

Palermo 2016 into 2017

On the back-end of bronchitis I've been hacking, wheezing and coughing my way through Palermo with the long-suffering travel mate.…

8 years ago

Happy New Year 1917

A few images from a century ago to wish everyone the very best for 1917. War is lurking!  This Reading…

8 years ago