The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo. By Paul Strathern, Published April 1, Atlantic Books. Review by Barbara Lewis.
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by Carla Scarano • art, design, exhibitions, history, installations, sculpture, society, travel • Tags: art, Carla Scarano, design, exhibitions, sculpture, society, travel •
The Arctic: Culture and Climate: Resilience and an enduring thriving culture characterise the population living in the Arctic, a large area in the North Pole comprising Greenland, Alaska, some of the northern territories of Canada, and parts of Siberia and Scandinavia.
by Barbara Lewis • books, film, food, history, society, year 2021 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, books, film, food, history, society •
The Rome Plague Diaries, Lockdown Life in the Eternal City: In times when many of us have been wondering why we didn’t get ourselves stranded near a Caribbean beach, Matthew Kneale decided there was nowhere on the planet he would rather be locked down than where he was in his adoptive city of Rome.
by Carla Scarano • art, books, drawing, exhibitions, painting, sculpture, society, tapestry, textiles, year 2020 • Tags: art, books, Carla Scarano, drawing, exhibitions, painting, sculpture, society •
Tantra: enlightenment to revolution, British Museum. Review by Carla Scarano. culture and tradition are as alive as ever today, as the comprehensive and exhaustive exhibition at the British Museum shows.Â
by Stephanie Sears • architecture, art, history, society, travel, year 2020 • Tags: architecture, art, history, society, Stephanie Sears, travel •
Post-Virus Venice: More than looks. Venice is, to a majority of us, one of humanity’s most seductive achievements.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, politics, psychology, society, writing, year 2020 • Tags: books, politics, psychology, society, Wendy French, writing • 0 Comments
Her Other Language: Wendy French gets to grips with a bold and frank anthology addressing domestic violence
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, society, year 2020 • Tags: books, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, poetry, society • 0 Comments
Poetry Review – Shop TALK: Paul Tanner’s poetic accounts of life as a shop worker are vivid, uncompromising and ultimately uncomfortable
by Constance Woodring • history, politics, psychology, society, year 2020 • Tags: Connie Woodring., history, politics, psychology, society •
The Ugly Side of Beauty. Connie Woodring discusses the downside of our beauty culture as it relates to women’s physical/mental health and safety.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • art, literature, politics, society, year 2019 • Tags: art, literature, Michael Crowley, politics, society • 0 Comments
Social Solidarity and the Arts in Woke Times: Michael Crowley advocates against an ever-increasing subdivision of the arts into racial, age-related or gender groups for a similar audience
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, society, year 2019 • Tags: books, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, poetry • 0 Comments
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs tackles a difficult read which attempts to bring home some human realities of street violence in London
by Carla Scarano • society, travel, year 2019 • Tags: Carla Scarano, society, travel •
During my last week in Calgary I still had to do some shopping, visit the Glenbow museum, the Zoo and Lougheed house, a villa belonging to a rich Métis family.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • added recently on London Grip, books, history, politics, society, year 2021 • Tags: books, history, politics, Richie McCaffery, society • 0 Comments
CLOSING TIME AT THE ROYAL OAK: Richie McCaffery admires the way that John Lucas has embedded perceptive social observation in a history of his local pub