Balancing the physical and the spiritual
An article on the BBC website this week looked at how yoga and meditation are being used in prisons around the world …
A Reni day
In the summer of 1998, it was decided that the chapel choir in which I sang would go on a mini-tour of …
Travelling through time with fans
A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to attend a special screening at the BFI Southbank of Remembrance of the Daleks, …
The Titanic and an Ulster fry
Despite the heat I have been thinking about cooked breakfasts. A close friend of mine is moving at the end of the …
Behind the scenes
Earlier this week, I was invited to a private view of this year’s summer exhibition at the National Gallery in London, Vermeer …
Happy Days! 1950s Americana from ClassicStock
There is something incredibly reassuring about looking at stock photographs from the United States in the 1950s. There’s a confidence, a white-toothed, …
The young men who shocked Victorian England
I had to wait a good while to get my hands on Neil McKenna’s latest book, Fanny and Stella. By the time …
Friday fun: Kitschy, colourful curios from bilwissedition
akg-images is now very pleased to offer over 17,000 images from our friends at bilwissedition, an incredible historical archive based in Germany. …
No place like home: Mario De Biasi and Milan
Last year I wrote on the blog about the Another London exhibition at Tate Britain which brought together works by photographers who were …
North Korean Style
My young niece spent a fair amount of Christmas Day last year blaring out Psy’s Gangnam Style as loudly as she dared and …