5 x 5 No. 2: John’s list
For the end of 2015, when this blog has been less than it should have been, and for the start of 2016, when I intend it to be more than it has been, we offer five short lists of five more
For the end of 2015, when this blog has been less than it should have been, and for the start of 2016, when I intend it to be more than it has been, we offer five short lists of five more
Tonight at BFI Southbank I am introducing three documentaries about the arts made for British television more than fifty years ago. The screening is part of the excellent BFI project Visions of Change about television documentaries from more
Tomorrow night Sky Arts premieres our new film for The Hot Ticket strand, Ai Weiwei at the RA. We have already produced Matthew Bourne's The Car Man as a Hot Ticket and next week we are recording another major more
I've had a wonderful birthday week in France, and now I'm back with all sorts of new challenges to face. Here's a selection of three things for today, before - inspired a bit by my birthday blog - I start more
Each day I highlight just three things. Sometimes there are links between them, oftentimes there are not. • When Orham Panuk met Anselm Kiefer: a lovely, evocative essay by the novelist, courtesy of the Guardian. • Next practices in more
Each day I highlight just three things. Sometimes there are links between them, oftentimes there are not. • The new new museum: Jerry Saltz for New York magazine riffs on the recent history of art museums and makes you long more
Each day I try to highlight just three things. Sometimes there are connections between the three things, oftentimes there are not. • The wonderfully elusive Chinese novel: a fascinating discussion from The New York Review of Books in which Perry more
Each day I highlight three things. Sometimes there are connections between them, oftentimes there not. • A new Whitney: Michael Kimmelman reviews Manhattan's latest museum, with great use of embedded video and graphics (above) in a spectacular online essay from The more
Each day I highlight three things. Sometimes there are connections between them, oftentimes there not. • C20 Society Churches Database: a truly wonderful resource from the Twentieth Century Society. • The Smithsons on Housing: writer and filmmaker B. S. Johnson's eccentric more
(Go here for a note about why I have started to post in this way.) • Live and direct - the definitive oral history of 1980s digital icon Max Headroom: from Bryan Bishop for The Verge, and more