• The Devil’s Quoits

    Having visited a fake cave, I was intrigued to visit a fake stone circle. In its early bronze age heyday, Devil’s Quoits comprised of 36 standing stones in a ring with a 79m diameter. Between the middle ages and the present all but one went missing. Today most of them have been relocated, rounded up …

    April 17, 2023

  • Book review: White Sight, Nicholas Mirzoeff

    Nineteenth century civic statues are so boring. Colourless, elevated, obscure, pompous, they have, for a very long time, eluded questioning. To topple one of these monuments, to go so far as to dump one into the sea, is to make the whatever bronze idol, appear to us fresh, and in disgrace. If there is such …

    April 6, 2023

  • System Interference

    The first review of this show is scratched into the dirt on the side of a car parked outside: “This is cool”, it appears to relate to the car. I say ‘parked’. In fact the vehicle is dumped on its roof. It’s just a silver Toyota but, inverted, it’s become a focal point for local …

    September 18, 2022