Yesterday I had the great honor to open a remarkable exhibition of artworks at the Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht – multiform institute for fine art, design and reflection Curators: Lex ter Braak, Director of Van Eyck and Huib Haye van der Werf, Head of Artistic Program. The exhibition runs through The Van Eyck Academie, Marres,…
archaeological imagination
Pop-up museum – cars – the power of less
Mobilizing the past Project: Future of the Past – [Link]Project: Future of Mobility – [Link]Project: JANUS Initiative – [Link] With the extraordinary Mark Gessler of the Historic Vehicle Association of America in the presentation of a pop-up museum of automotive history. Three cars sat in an exhibition for a week in Manhattan in the run…
returning
The past comes back to haunt in all sorts of ways. This is a key feature of the archaeological imagination. It may be something like “this happened here”, or “this was the way it was, and still is”. And, as archaeologists, as all of us do – we return, revisit, rehearse, reiterate, repeat. This familiar…
Cragside, Northumberland
Scene of crime. Investigating with Mike Pearson. Home and estate of the First Lord Armstrong. Now in the hands of The National Trust.
postbox
A returning fascination with postal systems (… The Crying of Lot 49) – see the section on the postcard in my “Experiencing the Past” – [Link] Expired Polaroid film stock (Type 690) – 2006. Camera – NPC 195.
Model T Ford at the Palace of Fine Arts
I was at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco this morning to welcome the arrival of the Historic Vehicle Association of America in their 1915 Model T Ford – culmination of a 3600 mile drive from Detroit following the tracks of Edsel Ford who made the same road trip a century ago. He…
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