A little list of my own, or…

15th September 2013

... why there is no Links for the weekend today. Each Sunday's Links... (go here for the most recent) takes some three or four hours to draw together. I tend to collect things that interest me during the week more

‘This royal throne of kings’

13th September 2013

Released today, the Richard II trailer... more about this, and further news from the production, on Monday.

Sorkinisms supercuts

12th September 2013

Too good to wait until my Links post at the weekend: Part I has been around a while (long enough to get more than 800,000 views); Part II was posted in July. With thanks to @KevinTPorter. (But I still really like more

‘Opus’ day

11th September 2013

This is a little story about the joy of serendipitous discovery in the archives. I am working on a research paper about the ways in which Henry Moore and his works featured on television and in films during his lifetime. Central more

‘Badges of his grief and patience’

8th September 2013

The RSC's Richard II is two weeks into rehearsals and it is time for another production blog. The trailer gets completed by Dusthouse today and should be on view in cinemas and online at the end of the week. I more

Links for the weekend

8th September 2013

So I was thinking I would find something a bit different as the lead for this week's Links. Not Shakespeare again, nor movies or television. Then I read one of the scariest pieces of prose to have come my way more

Lost encounter

7th September 2013

In March 1958, for the second programme of his ATV series Is Art Necessary?, Sir Kenneth Clark filmed at the British Museum with the sculptor Henry Moore. They did so at night, illuminating the ancient artworks, including the Elgin Marbles, with powerful more