A highlight of every month - who wouldn't want to read Irmin Schmidt's Invisible Jukebox in the latest issue, or Sunn O))) on Rothko and landscape? Other mags are full of lists and archive reprints but The Wire is always fresh and forward looking. And subscribers can access their amazing archive...

Article on jazz and landscape photography. www.onlandscape.co.uk/2024/12/land...

Tom Lubbock on John Russell's 'The Face of the Moon' (1793-7) www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

This evening I’ve tuned in to nature. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Rain spattered watercolour - Turner caught in a shower while painting Cader Idris.

I wrote about Basil Bunting’s modernist masterpiece, Briggflatts — published 60 years ago this month — and what I learned from the poet’s own comments on his poem

Non-invasive restoration of Chinese landscape painting. www.nature.com/articles/s40...

Gerhard Richter is 94 today

New post on 'A Surrey Naturalist by John Bevis, published by @uniformbooks.bsky.social some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2026/02/over...

Misty light in the distant vistas of ‘Crossing the Brook’, on show in the Tate’s Turner/Constable show.

On the fifteenth anniversary of his death, I wrote about one of my favourite poets, R.F. Langley, who I was lucky enough to know for ten years someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/we-speak-f...

Richard Long at Lisson Gallery.

Andrew Ray, on my last collection of poems, Not Sealions But Lions by the Sea. some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2025/08/loch...

Landscape cinema starter kit (2016) mubi.com/en/notebook/...

Emerging from flu, looking at the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham glaciers book.

Peter Doig’s ‘Music of the Future’ at the Serpentine. I thought I might be irritated by paintings accompanied by music but I really enjoyed it – the music is excellent and not ‘blasted’ as you might think from the Guardian review.

Lawrence Lek’s ‘NOX’ at Goldsmiths CCA.

Twenty years and over 1200 posts - I still enjoy doing this, even though the days when people wrote and read blogs are long gone... some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2025/11/twen...

Ben Enwonwu’s ‘River Niger Landscape’ (1965) at Tate Modern.

Landscape of the Megaliths: Ħaġar Qim.

Lucy Raven’s video installation ‘Murderers Bar’ (2025) about the undamming of a river is excellent. Free to see at the Barbican

‘From the top of the Great Pyramid, Giza’ (c.1938), in the Tate’s Lee Miller exhibition.

Sixteen detached blog posts on Ian Hamilton Finlay some-landscapes.blogspot.com/search/label...

Nice little Wilhelmina Barns-Graham show at Hales Gallery - this is ‘Formentera Rocks’, 1958

Obituary for Ian Monk, le punk de l'Oulipo.

Great interview with Iain Sinclair on the 50th anniversary of Lud Heat (speaking of Sinclair, I thought Pariah Genius, his recent book exploring the life and death of seedy photographer John Deakin, was his best work in ages) thequietus.com/culture/book...

Got the Tate members stuff today and was struck again by the fact they seem to have stopped having artist talks or symposiums. I've seen Roni Horn, Dan Graham, Hamish Fulton and others there... Checked online and it says "The Starr Cinema is perfect for corporate events and presentations..."

Landscape beneath my feet at V&A East Storehouse

It is Caspar David Friedrich‘s birthday and The Wire’s 500th issue. some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-gl...

Emily Kam Kngwarray’s ‘The Alhalker Suite’, which ‘offers an aerial perspective of the winding waterways, sandplains and the variable geography of Alhalker.’

I wrote about Eugen Gomringer, Europe's first concrete poet, who died last week aged 100 someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-35-e...

Scott Joplin rags as a garden in ‘Olio’ by Tyehimba Jess.

Ian Penman on Erik Satie

Kiefer or Van Gogh? This is 18 year old Kiefer inspired by Van Gogh. Excellent exhibition at the RA.

On nature cure memoirs (not for the first time Richard Mabey was ahead of the curve with ‘Nature Cure’). But this kind of writing has many antecedents… www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Robert Wilson’s KA MOUNTAIN AND GUARDenia TERRACE: 'a site-specific fantasia, a ritual and a pilgrimage across the seven hills of the arid rocky terrain of the Haft Tan Mountain.' some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2013/04/ka-m...

Popped into the reopened NG Sainsbury Wing at lunch and was greeted by an old favourite at the top of the stairs.

Stones and 21st century Morris dancers process up Whitehall this morning for Jeremy Deller’s The Triumph of Art.

‘The Clarkson’s Farm of art retrospectives’ according to JJ, but I’d like to see this. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

A new low tech email subscription feature on the blog. some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2025/07/past...

Interesting how culture has influenced this list www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Sunset in the Archipelago’ (1879) by Fanny Churberg. Saw some lovely landscapes by her arranged by time of day in ‘Crossing Borders’, an exhibition of women artists at Helsinki’s Ateneum.

“Here the shortest path isn’t the simplest…”

Splendid grotto. I recommend a visit - just £2.

Kumiko latticework folding screen at the Japan House exhibition on ‘The Craft of Carpentry: Drawing Life from Japan’s Forests.’

Talking to my son about Zen so I dug out my old Readers & Writers comic book guide ‘Zen for Beginners’. Haven’t looked at this since the eighties but it is pretty good.

Two neolithic stone circles, one on land and one underwater. ‘La Cathédrale Engloutie’ (1950) in the new Tate Ithell Colquhoun exhibition.

Great evening at the RGS talking about the architecture Venice Biennale with Kabage Karanja and Stella Mutegi of Cave_bureau, Owen Hopkins and Kathryn Yusoff.

This mountain is part of a Turkish shadow puppet theatre, on display in the British Museum.

I’m really enjoying this book by Kelly Presutti - just been reading some fascinating stuff about mountains.