Our colleague Todd MacDonald (@toddmacd), who works at Illuminations as our in-house editor, facilities manager and much more, has for the past few weeks been putting together an eclectic and enlightening selection of videos each Saturday. He has more
There's one straight-up, stand-out recommendation this week, Eric Naiman's lengthy essay for The Times Literary Supplement, When Dickens met Dostoevsky. It's the tale of a notable literary hoax about an alleged meeting encounter between the two authors in more
So even if you've already seen this, it is worth another watch - it's a brilliant marketing coup for Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum which re-opens this week after a decade of closure. A detail of the painting which it recreates - Rembrandt's more
The past week has been particularly rewarding for those of us who follow the writings on film of David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson. To start with, The Criterion Collection released the opening (embedded below) of a video essay about more
Links... is perhaps a little light this weekend, at least in this iteration. I have returned to my college for a gaudy, to which all those who started there between 1974 and 1977 are invited. Such a reunion is held more
Let's hear it for LACMA! On the Unframed blog at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Amy Heibel revealed this week that the museum is making available for pretty much unrestricted use another 18,000 or so digital more
Let's start with the first trailer, released this week, for Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing (a still from which is above). Might he just have pulled off something truly special? For further background on the film, which opens in more
I think the BBC's role in bringing to people's attention the great things being done by arts organisations across the country and artists is phenomenally important... Do I think the BBC should take the arts seriously? Of course. But I more
Even if I neglect the blog on other days (and apologies for that, it's just a very busy time right now), the list of links needs to be offered each Sunday. I rarely embed audio clips here (mostly because I more
It's got to be Girls for the lead. The most recent episode of Lena Dunham's HBO series, titled 'One man's trash', lit up my Twitter like nothing else last week (except maybe that meteor, on which you need more