Essential Media about the Arts
John Wyver writes: The usual Sunday helping of stuff that I have found engaging and enriching over the past week. The header image is of two Hylaeosaurus dinosaurs on the Tidal Lakes Trail in Crystal Palace Park, which we visited last weekend. The recently restored Victorian monsters look wonderful. • So you want to build [ ] The post The Sunday dozen appeared first on Illuminations .
John Wyver writes: Come with me a little further down the rabbit hole that is Studio BB in the original Broadcasting House. This post follows my two-part This temple of the arts and muses , the first element of which is here and the second here. And it is prompted by the presence of the grand [ ] The post The pianist of Studio BB appeared first on Illuminations .
John Wyver writes: In my previous post I enthused about Elizabeth Darling s new book Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting House and the Architecture of the BBC, 1922-1932. Here I want to focus on just one aspect that Darling throws some light on, but which I am keen to explore further: the use from August 1932 [ ] The post ‘This Temple of the Arts and Muses’, part 2 appeared first on Illuminations .
John Wyver writes: As I manage to do on most Sundays here is a collection of links to stuff that I have found interesting and rewarding over the past week. The header image, which seems suitably seasonal, is Paddling at the beach in Zandvoort by the German firm of Knackstedt Näther, from 1900 [ ] The post The Sunday dozen appeared first on Illuminations .
John Wyver writes: This Temple of the Arts and Muses is the opening phrase of the dedication, displayed in Latin and supposedly written by John Reith, at the entrance to Broadcasting House. Sited on an irregular plot in Portland Place, just north of Oxford Circus, the BBC s headquarters was opened in May 1932. Palace of [ ] The post This Temple of the Arts and Muses , part 1 appeared first on…
John Wyver writes: My usual compendium of links to stuff that this week has caught my eye and engaged my brain. My header image is of Collage for Losing the Garden, 2026, oil on paper, from the glorious exhibition Garden without Seasons of recent work by Clare Woods that opened this week (until 8 November) [ ] The post The Sunday dozen appeared first on Illuminations .
John Wyver writes: When the BBC television service at Alexandra Palace began operations officially on 2 November 1936, Studio A was fitted out with four Emitron electronic cameras supplied by the recently-established joint venture company Marconi-EMI. One or more of these 405-line cameras was mounted on a crude dolly, and so was minimally mobile. There [ ] The post The mystery of Alexandra Palace…
John Wyver writes: In the global scheme of things, the concern I want to highlight this morning is little more than a mote. But apart from the irritation it has provoked, it is a small but potentially significant sign of a shift in the relationship between the BBC s television channels and BBCiPlayer. It also has [ ] The post A small Films fail @BBCiPlayer appeared first on Illuminations .
John Wyver writes: A splendid wedding on Saturday and generally just life got in the way of producing my usual Sunday collection of stuff that has interested me in the past week. So here it is a day late. The header image is a 1916 English landscape by Walter Sickert, Chagford Across Fields, hanging in [ ] The post The Monday dozen appeared first on Illuminations .
John Wyver writes: To the ICA on Saturday last for another fascinating programme in Michael Witt s Jean-Luc Godard: Unmade and Abandoned series. This has been a revelatory season, shown more or less monthly, of films by Godard and others that, as Witt claims, sheds light on the huge and varied phantom body of unmade and [ ] The post Silences of the sea appeared first on Illuminations .