Three things 3.
(Go here for a note about why I have started to post in this way.) • Why did we see Don Draper reading Dante's Inferno in Mad Men? Marta Bausells for the Guardian. The related New York more
(Go here for a note about why I have started to post in this way.) • Why did we see Don Draper reading Dante's Inferno in Mad Men? Marta Bausells for the Guardian. The related New York more
(Go here for a note about why I have started to post in this way.) • 100 Voices That made the BBC - Elections: a glorious archive site about the televising of elections from the BBC and more
A time there was when I used to post here regularly, including on each Sunday a host of links. In recent months I have fallen out of the habit. You've been so busy with other things, I tell myself. You've been more
Unlikely as it may seem, read of the week may be Reeves Wiedeman's article for Popular Mechanics about how 300,000+ copies of The New York Times reach the streets every day. Below is a selection of other pieces to engage more
Interesting things from the past week and more, with sincere thanks as well as apologies to those who pointed me towards some of them, and who I have failed to acknowledge below. • Grammys 2015: transcript of Bob Dylan's MusiCares more
Here's a piece I wrote for the new issue of Picturehouse Recommends about the forthcoming cinema broadcasts of the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost and Love's Labour's Won on, respectively 11 February and 4 March. Picturehouse Recommends more
Let us now praise MoMA. Or more specifically, a recent website from New York's Museum of Modern Art that complements - or perhaps we should should say constitutes - an exhibition of modern photographs from the Thomas Walther more
In the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon is a truly splendid Royal Shakespeare Company production of Thomas Dekker's 1599 play The Shoemaker's Holiday. Director Phillip Breen, a spirited cast led by David Troughton and the RSC's costume department have more
Welcome indeed is the appearance today on BBC Arts Online of Ken Russell's 11-minute film profile from 1959 of the two Scottish painters Robert MacBryde (1913-66) and Robert Colquhoun (1914-62). The film, which was more
It's the first day of the second month of the year, and after far too long a break I have some new links to offer. One key event of the week, for all sorts of reasons which I hope to more