memory – Regular Marvels

Flowers for Kazuo Ohno (and Leonard Cohen)

Is artistic excellence really incompatible with social purpose? It’s an argument I’ve heard throughout my working life but it has

The title of Sardul Gill’s exhibition refers to the unknown material whose presence physicists deduce from gravitational data. Like much

The Light Ships is proving to be a revelation. An exploration of the church’s place in a community’s artistic life,

In 1841, a young father and musician was kidnapped in Washington DC, shipped in chains to New Orleans and sold

‘I feel quite moved that this is happening.’ Mary is the spirit behind ‘Handmade in Moulton’, her village’s arts and

Classical music is as important as photography in Terence Davies’ elegiac film about the people and city of Liverpool in

‘Music is in the first place of art. It brings us on an island with peace, beauty and love. Music

Why do writers quote other writers? The reasons are complex, and do not preclude such weaknesses as showing off—no one

‘What is this shit?’ The opening words of Greil Marcus’ 1970 review of Bob Dylan’s Self Portrait have become a

Among the stories I heard, during my Fenland visits last month, were several concerned with artistic life in rural Norfolk