As I have blogged previously, the Reading Room initiative from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is terrific. This makes available for reading online a selection of the museum's past catalogues. The 'flippingbook' format is more
Although I have no easy way of checking, there must be hundreds of films - and quite likely thousands - that feature David Hockney. By the end of the week, with the opening of David Hockney RA: A more
Yes, my friends, this is another Dickens-themed post (following on from the recent What larks and The film of the films of the books). Or at least the start of it is, because across the jump there's more
Headline: while The Mystery of Edwin Drood, part one of which we saw on BBC Two tonight, has much to recommend it, the television treat of the evening - and indeed most certainly of the year to more
Keen to start off the new year with a vision of the future of television? You could do a lot worse than read John Seabrook's Streaming dreams for The New Yorker. Seabrook casts a somewhat sceptical eye over the plans for YouTube more
To BFI Southbank on Friday evening for two screenings in the wonderful Dickens on Screen season. First up was The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Alberto Cavalcanti's adaptation for Ealing released in 1947. After more
The National Video Archive of Performance (NVAP) is a great and glorious resource - and shamefully little-known. Thanks to a generous agreement with theatre unions (which permits taping without the payment of fees to artistes and others), the more
As the out-of-office alerts are turned off and and the Christmas chocolate biscuits run out, there is inevitably something about this week that prompts reflections on the future. Not The Future in very general terms, but just how things might more
Twice before I've looked back to what lay ahead for viewers fifty years ago. The Illuminations blog archive (which holds pretty much everything we've ever published) has my post about the television year that was 1960 as well more
Below you'll find all sorts of good things that I've been reading and watching (or at least meaning to) over the past fortnight or so... In contrast to previous weekend collections, I've mixed up articles and videos - a practice more