John Wyver writes:To the Barbican for Tesseract, a dance piece in two halves that played from Thursday to Saturday on the main stage. It's the creation of filmmaker Charles Atlas and dancer-choreographers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener, all three more
Following yesterday's list of recent links to interesting articles about photography, here's another pull-together, this time of pointers to pieces about the medium formerly known as television. The wonderful image of the early television studio at Alexandra Palace was more
Until quite recently I posted a list of links each Sunday of stuff that over the previous week I had found interesting or intriguing. The format had its fans (including, most weeks, me) but a combination of other calls on more
Tomorrow night, Friday 1 March, BFI Southbank, under the title 'European Connections', begins a rich season of British television productions of classic European plays. A time there was when both the BBC and ITV produced exceptional presentations of more
We may have been neglecting the blog - and once again we'll try hard to do better - but nonetheless we've been busy in the past months. Looking forward, here are details of a clutch of forthcoming events involving Illuminations more
Links to interesting stuff that has caught my eye over the past week, with the usual thanks to Twitter recommenders and others. • Trump engaged in suspect tax schemes as he reaped riches from his father: truly remarkable investigative reporting from more
Even as I have been neglecting the Illuminations blog, for which apologies once more, I have been writing elsewhere. Today's brief entry here points to a post I've written for a History of the BBC blog; below there is news more
In the early evening on Tuesday and Thursday of this coming week, 2 and 4 October, Mark Rylance performs Harold Pinter's Nobel Lecture Art, Truth & Politics as part of the excellent 'Pinter at the Pinter' season. These charity more
Today's links to interesting stuff that has attracted my attention over the past week or so, with thanks to Twitter recommenders. You will doubtless be delighted to see that I have once again worked out how to embed videos. • They more
I'm not sure I'm ready - or have time - to return to contributing frequent posts, but I am interested to see if I can occasionally draw together notes and pointers about topics that are engaging me. I want to more