Leila Aboulela (2019) Bird Summons London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson Training to read literary fiction involves a kind of detection of the texts that constitute the conversation between genres, periods and sociocultural phenomena that is taking place in the interstices of any one single text before us – in the transitions between narrative forms and styles … More Leila Aboulela (2019) ‘Bird Summons’ London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson

Currently on show with Poussin Triumph of Pan, Trevor Gallery, Bishop Auckland Castle, Auckland Project: Francois B. Perrier Narcissus & Echo Thought to be near contemporary to The Triumph of Pan by Poussin, this painting is used to illustrate seventeenth century uses of mythological narratives or scenarios that illuminate Poussin’s context. For me the chief … More Bishop Auckland ‘Triumph of Pan’ exhibition Visit (2) Perrier’s Narcissus

Introducing Homo-somatism?: The nature of ‘queer’ readings in Art. Sunday, 18 Feb 2018, 14:57Visible to anyone in the world- Edited by Steve Bamlett, Sunday, 18 Feb 2018, 16:29– Edited by Steve Bamlett, Sunday, 18 Feb 2018, 15:23– Edited by Steve Bamlett, Sunday, 18 Feb 2018, 15:20 Introducing Homo-somatism?: The nature of ‘queer’ readings. How is the tolerance of … More Introducing Homo-somatism?: The nature of ‘queer’ readings in Art.

‘SPACES / PLACES’: Assessment (submitted to MoMA course on Modern Art & ideas) Friday, 2 Feb 2018, 20:26Visible to anyone in the world- Edited by Steve Bamlett, Monday, 5 Feb 2018, 09:04– Edited by Steve Bamlett, Friday, 2 Feb 2018, 20:28 I’ve always been intrigued by the terms, space’ and ‘place’. Places are spaces with other qualities, … More SPACES / PLACES: Assessment (submitted to MoMA course on Modern Art & ideas)

@Jenni_Fagan #Truth Reading Jenni Fagan’s Truth : The Truth is out (and in) there Truth is a problem in poetry. Note Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella Elizabethan sonnet sequence which starts: Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show The homophone ‘fain’ and ‘feign’ here drives together the two kinds of … More Reading Jenni Fagan’s Truth : The Truth is out (and in) there. @Jenni_Fagan #Truth

http://www.visitmima.com/whats-on/single/runs-like-a-rumor-and-a-legend-john-bergers-miners-30-years-on/ Shaping contemporary local higher education without the constraints of the faculty. Thank you to MIMA, Dr Martyn Huson & Emily Hesse for leading up a wonderful event at MIMA yesterday. Collect together distinguished academics who appear willingly, not only as academics but also as people, to talk about their experience. Then elaborate and structure … More MIMA on Berger: Shaping contemporary local higher education without the constraints of the faculty.