The extraordinary poet, novelist, activist and painter, Etel Adnan, who died in 2021 at the age of 96, talks about her art and her philosophy of life
“What we call ‘love’ is a relationship that never ends; it is like a wave that keeps bringing you back to it, so we are like surfers who run after the perfect experience.”
Graham Falvey visits the Chauvet Caves in Southern France
“The fundamental fact is that with these paintings, we created/discovered art. At the heart of their mystery lies a spiritual quest for understanding…”
Barbara Vellacott contemplates the indescribability of beauty in Dante’s Paradiso
“Beauty is a divine vibration which sings in poet, poem, reader and listener. But its essence is nevertheless indescribable.”
Richard Twinch on Cultural Change
“The past is not just a heap of outmoded algorithms, but a valuable resource to be archaeologically unpicked and valued.”
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater
“The circumference of architecture is changing with astonishing rapidity but its center remains unchanged – the human heart.”
James Turrell’s Berlin Installation
“Here the invitation is to something less cosmic, more personal.”