John Wyver writes: Although posts of this kind are not directly related to the company's operations, I occasionally scratch out accounts of my travels and other doings. In this case, my wife Clare and I are now on a long-planned more
John Wyver writes: welcome to this week's selection of stuff that I've enjoyed and been enriched by over the past week. • Frank Stella went from Bauhaus to fun house: such a great appraisal by Deborah Solomon for The New more
John Wyver writes: Apologies for missing last week - somehow the keynote for the University of Westminster conference Designs on TV, together with other stuff, just gobbled up the days. But here's this week's selection of twelve articles and audio more
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