In the Middle

by J J Cohen From today's NYT , a dispirited meditation by Michael Kimmelman on the failures of art in a Dresden where bigotry has been ...

by J J Cohen This is even bigger than the Long Now Foundation's announcement of an iconified list of US land art . Forget the architectu...

[illustration: the subterranean dragons of history erupt into art, Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain : Lambeth Pala...

by J J Cohen To your left you will see a picture I snapped along the Marginal Way , a seacoast path that connects the village of Ogunquit to...

by J J Cohen [rocky image at left captured by Michel Corboz ] This is Part II of the post instigated here . The essay on inhuman art of whic...

by J J Cohen Eileen in her usual bullying way has forced/cajoled/tricked etc. me into composing an essay for a collection she is putting tog...

In an interesting essay in the NYT , Sacks wonders about the patterns he has witnessed since childhood while gripped by migraine and the cr...

Fodder for several of our longrunning conversation here at ITM : the Museum of Natural History at Rouen in Normandy has decided that a mummi...

Here is the draft opening to my new project on "The Weight of the Past." I'm attempting to frame the problem with an initially...

While we're on the topic of fossils, alternate worlds, and temporality ... I thought I'd share a link to this very good site focuse...

In Scenes from Deep Time: Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World , Martin J. S. Rudwick traces how Victorian illustrations...

Without wanting to "jump" the bracing "Slovenly Slavoj" discussion, I thought I wound return us at the same time to Da...