Bird photography took flight when limitations in the technology were overcome in the 21st century. The 200 photographs by more than fifty practitioners of the art that make up “Aviary: the bird in contemporary photography” bear astonishing testimony to what is n possible. Sean Sheehan The book’s two […]
Book reviews
At the Red Rose silk factory
The Soviet textile artist Anna Andreeva (1917-2008) worked at the Red Rose silk factory in Moscow from the 1940s to the 1980s. Inspired by the Russian avant-garde, primarily the Constructionist movement, her work broke down simplistic divisions between high art and craft. Sean Sheehan The Constructivist movement, taking […]
Dinner time
Many cookbooks are underused because sections in them – like starters/ hors d’oeuvre, desserts – tend to be given short shrift by those with busy lives and more in need of good ideas for an evening meal than culinary creations that might impress visitors in our home. Sean Sheehan […]
Hidden histories of South America
The title of this book, “Small earthquakes”, comes from the probably apocryphal story about the title that won a competition, among bored sub-editors on the Times, for the dullest newspaper headline that would make it into print: it was won with ‘Small Earthquake in Chile. Not many dead’. Sean […]
Internal exile
Modernism was a renaissance in the early twentieth century affecting different art forms around the world. Not coincidentally, it arose from the ashes of the destructive conflict of imperialist powers that produced World War I. Sean Sheehan Modernism is not to be conflated with modernity and its dustbinning […]
















