Category Archives: art

An Inquiry into the Sublime

Walter de Maria Lightning Field 1977 This talk for Norfolk Contemporary Art Society in Norwich, Wednesday 2nd October, 2019, is in essence a much edited amalgam of two of my essays in Art and its Dark Side: the eight rivers … Continue reading

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Publications by The Theatre of Mistakes

At last, we have managed to work out a way of creating a sales outlet for the seminal Publications of THE THEATRE OF MISTAKES   Click this link for Publications by The Theatre of Mistakes My textbook The Analysis of … Continue reading

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TACTILE, UNTOUCHABLE

Here is a new review for the Fortnightly Review – Tactile, Untouchable Looking at three stunning works of visual art on show in London just recently. I am dedicating this review here to the memory of Mary Maclean Another Review … Continue reading

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A CHAPERONE

The monkeys are in among the mangoes. As for the lovely one, she is emerging from Under the trees, the trees laden with mangoes And monkeys.  She’s ambling out of the grove   Bearing the nail marks left by the … Continue reading

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UNTITLED ABSTRACTIONS

    Click this link for details of a new exhibition at The Room By Sadiq Toma. Wednesday 5th December 2018-Tuesday 5th February 2019  Private View – Tuesday 4th December 2018 6pm – 9pm

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We Live in a Nuthouse

  Brilliant piece in Hyperallergic.  Click here for this Studs Terkel/Zero Mostel interview posted by Karen Schiff.

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Charged Atmospheres

Charged Atmospheres – Alison Marchant A new exhibition at The Room – 33 Holcombe Road, London N17 9AS Sat 30 September – Sunday 12 November, 2017    Private View – Saturday 30 September from 6pm – 9.30pm. Alison Marchant presents … Continue reading

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THE NEW BEAUTY

  Click the link for THE NEW BEAUTY This is an essay published by The Fortnightly Review.   For a complete list of links to other reviews of poets and my previous articles click here: The Fortnightly  

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FIVE FIGURE EXERCISE – Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass, Sol LeWitt, Stuart Sherman and Robert Wilson (1979)

FIVE FIGURE EXERCISE – Harpers & Queen, May 1979 I reckon this is a historic document, so re-publish it here. On a still undefined boundary of modern art painter Sol LeWitt, dancer Lucinda Childs and composer Philip Glass are working … Continue reading

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LINKS TO NEW POEMS, ESSAYS AND REVIEWS

(This post last updated 15 March 2026) Review of Melissa McCarthy’s Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro published in The Fortnightly Review Ten Poems from Shorter Poems 1969-2022 published in The High Window. A Review of Autumn, plus an interview in CHAINLINK … Continue reading

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