Regular Marvels, in Theory (RMT)
Originally posted on Regular Marvels:
One reason for creating Regular Marvels is to look for better ways of writing about people’s experience…
Category: Thinking
Art’s alternative economies
It’s been hard to escape the Glastonbury Festival in the past couple of weeks and clearly many people had no
‘There’s no insurance against life’
Dementia has become the fate worse than death that haunts the imagination of Western societies. It is the price we
Art’s liberating deniability
Monk: An intellectual ventriloquist: that’s an oxymoron. Nina: What’s an oxymoron? Monk: Well if you don’t know, why did I
National Treasures
Gunnie Moberg (1941-2007) was a photographer, painter and designer, born in Sweden and an Orkney woman by adoption. A small
Artists teaching art
Mik Godley, the artist with whom I worked on Winter Fires, is threatened with redundancy from his part-time teaching post
Artful scientists
The relationship between art and science has been fractious since the Enlightenment, when practices that had often been seen as
The intrinsic value of art
Four weeks ago, the Louvre Museum presented the largest overview of German painting ever seen in France. De l’Allemagne, 1800-1939
A child’s view of the Miners’ Strike
Yesterday morning, Margaret Thatcher died. Her death has been followed by an explosion of polemic, encomium and vitriol, about what
Artful integrity: on Alistair Cooke
In August 1983, New York experienced a heat wave of unusual ferocity. One evening, in his 15th floor apartment overlooking
Parliament of Dreams 