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The Marmoset Principle: On the Secret Influence of Small Primates in Baroque Composition
Though largely absent from standard art historical accounts, the presence,both visual and theoretical,of marmosets in...
Damp Dominion: Meteorological Determinism and the Origins of the British Empire
Taken from the newly-published book by Dr. Nora Willoughby D.Phil. (Oxon.) The history of the...
Further Correspondence from Captain Thurlow
Sir, Having now absorbed the more recent contribution in your pages, which, with admirable clarity...
Diary of an Artist
6th August, 2025 , 11:39pm, studio, lights off Three days without touching a brush. I...
Diary of an Artist: Anonymous London
3rd August, 2025 , 4:12am, studio floor, cold tea beside me Haven’t slept. Again. I...
Flash Fiction Contest: When I was in St David’s by Anabella Drake
The rain fell sideways in St David’s, needling the cobbled streets and rattling umbrellas like...
More from the Journals of Basil Bromley, Victorian Artist and Mechanician
Entry the Fifth , 18th of May, 1873 I departed Redruth in a drizzle that...
A Riposte to Hedge Fund: Against the Aestheticization of Motor-Racing
by curator Archia Tanz The recent argument that motor-racing ought to be counted among the...
Who Crafted the ‘Roman Remains’ recently Discovered Beneath Boston?
In the aftermath of the harrowing revelation,that the ostensible Roman ruins discovered beneath the new...