The sycamore tree on Hadrian’s Wall is as close as our culture got to a sacred tree - venerated, visited, endlessly represented - anachronistic in age weaving Robin Hood and St Oswald and the frontier forts and tribes of the Roman wall - and now felled like the druids’ groves
Imaginatively rooted in #SriLanka’s multicultural heritage, @ShehanKaru’s ‘The seven moons of Maali Almeida’, is beautifully written and structured, while giving us a shockingly graphic account of the civil war. It is unique and highly recommended.
🚨We can’t sit back while plans to respond to the climate emergency are scrapped.
❗️Join me and tell Rishi Sunak: don't ditch the climate pledge 👉 https://t.co/p8M9eDAJVz
#KeepThePledge
‘#Photography has arrived at a point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from anecdote, and even from the subject. So shouldn’t painters profit from their newly acquired liberty to do other things?’ - #PabloPicasso
I am sure your local cinema won’t show #DarrenAronofsky’s 2022 #film ‘#TheWhale’ - after all who’d want to sit through (for over an hour) the story of a very obese man. And yet you will have missed a wonderful film, with sensitive acting and amazing dialogue (see it on #Prime).
#AiWeiWei’s ‘#MakingSense’ exhibition @DesignMuseum is a poignant example of how art can be a political statement: see below his juxtaposition of mass produced Lego and the disappearing craftsmanship of #woodcarving in China
In this mix of #guerrillagardening, billionaire #survivalism, #raremetals extraction, #conservation, all set in #NewZealand, you’re never clear whether this novel wants to be a political tract that could have been set in the Seventies or a modern fast-moving thriller.
#mariekeLucasRijneveld won the #InternationalBookerPrize in 2020 with ‘The discomfort of evening’. It’s the observations of a 12-year-old girl who lives on a farm, and is trying to make sense of the world and the sadness surrounding her. Stunning writing.
Ferocious nature, how people cope with it, and the darkness it brings out in them, is the main subject of #Icelandic director #HlymurPalmason’s ‘#Godland’. Also shows many lovely #horses and the sweetest #dog