“Artereality: rethinking art as craft in a knowledge economy” – a manifesto for arts and humanities pedagogy, and indeed research, was published today in a collection of essays about the future of arts education in the US, edited by Steven Madoff for MIT Press. I wrote it with Jeffrey Schnapp, drawing on our experience of…
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Paris INHA
Paris, across from the Institut nationale de l’histoire de l’art (INHA), with Alain Schnapp, discussing our project on antiquarians – Bibliotheca Universalis Antiquaria
Dublin
Boonville, Anderson Valley, California
Back in Boonville, after the field season in the UK. Standish vinyard – tasting room in an old apple barn. Testimony to the dying orchards of the valley, the fast-growing shift to wine production. Standish – the old connection with the Pilgrim Fathers. One of the Pinot Noirs is named “Mayflower”. Gallery – Link
military occupation – the Roman experience
Our excavations of Binchester Roman town are underway. VINOVIVM.ORG A key question for me – just what was the character of military occupation? The day-to-day experience, the ambience. Milecastle, Hadrian’s Wall We are too used to modern colonialism to appreciate the differences of ancient “military” experience, when so embedded in institutions of property, land, citizenship.
end of industry
At the Durham Miners’ Gala 2009 The annual celebration of a great industry and labor movement, once a living force, now a memory, nostalgically inspiring at best, after Thatcher’s neo-liberal ideology and political spite closed all the coal mines and devastated the pit villages. Gallery – Link
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