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Category: Exhibitions

Lessons unlearned

Infographics are big business. You can buy a big glossy book of infographics on more or less any topic, for … More

1900, Charting Black Lives, Exposition Universelle, House of Illustration, Paris Exposition, W.E.B. Du Bois

State of the planet

At the age of eighteen I was a dope-smoking, layabout, benefit-scrounging squatter. During this phase of my life I was … More

Foster + Partners, Kim Stanley Robinson, Moving to Mars, The Design Museum

Hurtfully real

Paula Rego’s lumpen figures, often so sturdy their proportions seem dwarf-like, have such presence, such immediacy, that it’s easy to … More

Obedience and Defiance, Paula Rego, The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Now’s the time

Time is an important theme for now. Wait, what did I just write? For the concept of ‘now’ it seems … More

Clock of the Long Now, Darren Almond, Future Library, Katie Paterson, Lucy Raven, Modern One, National Galleries of Scotland, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Shona Macnaughton

A book on the wall

For a small, softly-spoken country, Scotland carries a large intellectual stick. Voltaire said that ‘we look to Scotland for all … More

Ideas That Shook The World, National Library of Scotland, Northern Lights, Northern Lights: The Scottish Enlightenment, the Scottish Enlightenment

Distant whispers

Whispers sometimes reach our ears from long-silenced voices, reverberations reflected by a documentary record that has diversified over the last … More

At The Water's Edge, MacKinnon Collection, National Library of Scotland

Capitalising on the dark

Darkness is an abundant resource during December in Edinburgh. To many of the city’s residents, trapped in an indoor workplace … More

Christmas at the Botanics, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Knowledge, from extraction to production

The approach to Giles Gilbert Scott’s menacing Ministry of Truth building in Cambridge is designed to diminish and belittle the … More

Cambridge Philosophical Society, Cambridge University, Cambridge University Library, epistemology, history and philosophy of science, history of science, libraries, science

The truth is a collage

We recall and communicate experience as coherent, continuous, meaningful – it is so important to us to do so that … More

400 Years of Collage, art, art history, collage, Cut and Paste, Modern 2, modern art, naive art, National Galleries of Scotland, The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

History, re-mediated

‘Palazzo’ is a term that is bandied about quite casually in Italy, and although it is technically cognate with ‘palace’, … More

Arabo-Norman architecture, Capella Palatina, history, Norman Sicily, Palazzo dei Normanni, Palermo, Sicily

The truths between instants

‘The camera cannot lie’ is a phrase that has had currency since the last years of the nineteenth century, although … More

Ferdinando Scianna, Galleria d’Arte Moderna Sant’Anna, Palermo, photography, portrait photography, portraiture, Sicily

The city’s invisible family photographs

The Galleria d’Arte Moderna Sant’Anna is housed in what was once a Franciscan friary. I can’t remember entering it, or … More

Galleria d’Arte Moderna Sant’Anna, GAM, Palermo, Sicily

Moments of erasure

Facing across a busy Palermo street narrow enough to deny its facade any commanding sightlines, the Palazzo Riso-Belmonte is also … More

baroque, baroque architecture, Circle of Life, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palazzo Riso-Belmonte, Palermo, Richard Long, RISO, Sicilian Baroque, Sicily
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