What is a Museum?
Cultural encyclopedia or appropriated plunder? I recently took a trip to Athens in Greece. Whilst I was there I visited... View Article
Cultural encyclopedia or appropriated plunder? I recently took a trip to Athens in Greece. Whilst I was there I visited... View Article
Writing by hand helps me to express exactly what I want to express.
In the Guggenheim, New York, people are throwing down a confetti of paper flyers from the famous curved balconies of... View Article
Learning to play is a most reliable source of pleasure. A few year ago I went to a party, a... View Article
Online and offline reading experiences compared. Whenever I attempt to read anything online that is more than a few hundred... View Article
The strange relationship between museum objects and the digital copies we make of them Today, it is possible to walk... View Article
My past week has been spent stretched out on a beach, or otherwise walking up and down its supple sands,... View Article
It is tempting to think of creativity as an explosive act, picturing Jackson Pollock prowling around his canvas, dripping paint... View Article
The first cities I truly visited were those I was set free in. When I was eighteen years old, unharnessed... View Article
eReaders and their names: a short survey One of my favorite phrases is “Books do furnish a room”. Whenever I... View Article
The act of gazing brings people into new relationships. The angles and meeting points of looking and seeing imply distinctions... View Article
Eugen Herrigel’s beautiful insight into Zen is also problematic. Does it still have the power to teach?
One of the most profound books I read as a younger person was Albert Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus. The... View Article
I’ve just turned 40 years old. It’s not an enormous number, not an elephantine age. But it’s a number that... View Article
It’s a bad habit, but when I’m in public I often listen in on other people’s conversations. Just recently I... View Article
I’ve never been sure about Coventry railway station. Bold perpendicular lines of grey concrete, shifting mezzanine levels, fierce observance to... View Article
The life force of a digital device, a mobile phone or a handheld tablet, can give the impression of something... View Article
For the last six weeks I’ve been going to life drawing classes at a local college. Just as you see... View Article
As a form of literature, the memoir has often struck me as an odd. The author assembles a small museum... View Article
The recent acquisition of Lotte Laserstein’s Evening Over Potsdam (Abend über Potsdam, 1930) by the Berlin National Gallery offers the... View Article