John Wyver writes: another gathering in of articles and other bits and pieces that have engaged me and enriched my thinking across the past week. The image is from the controversial, seemingly both complex and simplistic Civil War, released this more
John Wyver writes: the week's collection of articles and audio that I have enjoyed, learned from, appreciated and been challenged by over the past week, and that I think are worth sharing. • All 40 Marlon Brando film performances ranked, more
John Wyver writes: In November the distinguished art historian Lynda Nead (link to her page at Birkbeck, where she is now Emerita Professor), who is also a friend, gave the prestigious Paul Mellon Lectures at the V&A. In four more
John Wyver writes: On the way to New Haven for a screening and panel at Yale (so, yes, look out for another Postcard from there), I spent a busy day and a half in New York. These was a time more
John Wyver writes: V&A South Kensington is hosting, until 22 September, Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence, a comparatively small-scale exhibition about the fascinating topic of, as the website says, 'a unique style of mid-century architecture which fused the clean more
John Wyver writes: I am lucky enough to be in New York for a couple of nights (look out for a 'Postcard' from the city here soon) and I spent yesterday afternoon in the peerless permanent collections galleries of the more
John Wyver writes: I had been looking forward to Peter Biskind's latest book, which in the States is titled Pandora's Box: How Guts, Guile and Greed Upended TV, and which over here carries the slightly desperate, and arguably more
John Wyver writes: as usual, a selection of articles and audio that caught my attention this past week. The image above, which relates to my first choice, is a detail from Anatole Godet's photograph of"Portrait de Emile Zola" par more
John Wyver writes: Here's another brief, random note about a cultural object that I've encountered in the past few days, in this case Fritz Lang's Western with Henry Fonda and Gene Tierney, which I saw at what I persist in more
John Wyver writes: I'm pleased that I seem to be managing to keep the Sunday dozen going, and while I don't feel ready - or have the time - to return to blogging more seriously, I want to try floating more