… and we’re back!

20th November 2014

It's been a hugely frustrating month and more. One night, entirely unprovoked by us, our web site apparently started 'attacking' other sites. Our developers quite rightly felt that the only thing to do was to take a large part of the more

Anarchy on Sky Arts

3rd October 2014

Anarchy in Manchester, a new series produced by Illuminations, starts tonight on Sky Arts 1 HD at 10.30pm. Producer LINDA ZUCK and editor TODD MACDONALD introduce the programmes. LINDA: In six half-hour programmes, we bring you the very best of more

Sunday: a blog makeover

8th June 2014

Although there is no sign of this here, I have been thinking a lot about a new direction for this blog. I have remarkably downtime at the moment and I'm all too aware that I am not posting regularly. The more

Lord K

21st May 2014

Tate Britain this week has opened the exhibition Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation, which runs until 10 August. There is no sense that I can be impartial about the show, given that I contributed by curating the television more

Catching up…

19th May 2014

It has been just over a month since I last posted, for which I can only apologise. Not that I haven't had things to write about. Rather too many of them, in fact. Which in part accounts for my failure more

Links to catch up, 1

25th January 2014

Nearly a month and not a single new post. Given the time of year, I might have expected things to have been quiet, leaving plenty of time for the blog. But not a bit of it. I have started work more

2013 top ten, 7: John Wyver

2nd January 2014

To conclude our 2013 round-up, and before we get to the business of 2014 over the weekend and next week, this is our final 'top ten' of the year. Let's hope that the new year can offer as rich a more

2013 top ten, 6: Louise Machin

2nd January 2014

At the end of every year each of us at Illuminations and at our sister company Illuminations Films contributes a top ten of cultural highlights of the year. We run these through this holiday period, with the penultimate contribution today from more