Happy Christmas everyone… youtu.be/lsGu4K3KAvM?...

For once, a good "end of year culture roundup".

Volvelles!

maurizio nannucci who's afraid of red yellow and blue The first invitation card that John Bevis and myself printed in the basement of Coracle Press, forty-four years ago. The text was handset by Brian Lane and the card printed letterpress in three colours and 'blind' white. 90 x 115mm

maurizio nannucci who's afraid of red yellow and blue The first invitation card that John Bevis and myself printed in the basement of Coracle Press, forty-four years ago. The text was handset by Brian Lane and the card printed letterpress in three colours and 'blind' white. 90 x 115mm

Christmas fried eggs.

Christmas fried eggs.

1776: The shortest day: a truly black, & dismal one.

Still ringing.

Still ringing.

Outside line.

"Except those conversations, while normal in speed and rhythm, were anything but normal in terms of content." Rufo Quintavalle's tribute to the late Ian Monk. Winter '25 DADA issue.  https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19-winter-2025/ian-monk-19602025/

"superfine writing paper" / "neatly bound"

Another time, another place.

In the new art, a page is an absolute isolation for the whole process.

A surprise seeing this popping up in Michael Caines’ column in the latest TLS @thetls.bsky.social following his discussion of this year’s *wordoftheyear* according to the usual authorities on the matter.

Rag of the year.

Demystification internationaltimes.it/demystificat... Rupert Loydell

Rag of the year.

Happy 50th to Printed Matter, Inc.!

Sol LeWitt. Fold Piece, Sixteen Squares, 1972

Unseasonal still.

Just for good measure, here's Charles Bernstein's comprehensive 'dossier' from 2012, "to address misrepresentations, distortions, and disinformation surrounding Gertrude Stein’s wartime record". @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social jacket2.org/feature/gertrude-steins-war-years-setting-record-straight

In the new art, a book is a book with only blank pages, which is irrelevant to the book.

Still quite a bit confounded by this contribution from Books of the Year in the TLS a few weeks ago. The Stein book is a great piece of work, but the judgements about both Stein’s writing, and more so her politics, don’t come from a reading of the Wade book, so i’m not sure where…

Still quite a bit confounded by this contribution from Books of the Year in the TLS a few weeks ago. The Stein book is a great piece of work, but the judgements about both Stein’s writing, and more so her politics, don’t come from a reading of the Wade book, so i’m not sure where…

Pickled poem.

'Transformation, No.1; John Lyle, Devon, 1967.

"The exhibition documents a small section of the archival ephemera of British bookseller John Lyle (1932–2002)." www.instagram.com/p/DSCvfYsjdYJ/

The English Landscape Tradition at Westwood, Peterborough. Pedestrianisation is for life and for Christmas - read all about it in my new book, available here: theradburnidea.bigcartel.com

Less-faded times.

idealstockingfiller

Non-fiction days. (pic c/o @jaseheeley.bsky.social)

John Bevis's definitive study concerns itself with the lives and partnership of the Keartons, especially their role in the history of nature photography; their attitudes to and interaction with nature; and the status of invention in their work. uniformbooks.co.uk/thekeartons.php

Back in the '80s, speedily en route from Antwerp to Dover my fellow passenger said the driver couldn't decide whether he was Captain Pugwash or Biggles.

Went to London and saw View at Epsom.

...another. [Folding card. Simon Cutts, 'G. Seurat: Flotte a peche', Tarasque Press, undated (1971).]

Hear what the mournful linnets say: ‘We built our nest compact and warm, But cruel boys came round our way And took our summerhouse by storm. ‘They crushed the eggs so neatly laid; So now we sit with drooping wing, And watch the ruin they have made, Too late to build, too sad to sing.’

stanley brouwn. 1 step - 100000 steps, 1972

I remember making a text with two radio transcripts when it was still done with a typewriter. www.colinsackett.co.uk/writing_read...

I remember making a text with two radio transcripts when it was still done with a typewriter. www.colinsackett.co.uk/writing_read...

"For Christmas, not just for life..." Uniformbooks are available direct: uniformbooks.co.uk Our books may also be ordered through any bookshop; and online, Blackwells, for example, carry all of our titles, and offer free delivery. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/sea...

In the new art, poetry is a bag of words, which is irrelevant to the book.

"For Christmas, not just for life..." Uniformbooks are available direct: uniformbooks.co.uk Our books may also be ordered through any bookshop; and online, Blackwells, for example, carry all of our titles, and offer free delivery. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/sea...

Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art archives, John Constable's 1822 Cloud Study. Written on the back: "Sep 21 1822 past one o'clock looking South wind very fresh at East, but warm."

Richter’s toilet roll.

AN ARTIST LOOKS AT CHURCHES (1959)

As i’ve said before, and will probably say again, the most important twentieth century artist of the English landscape.

New on my Substack: robinkinross.substack.com/p/blank-page...

"Upside down."