John Berger: From Life by Tom Overton review – a vibrant biography of the pioneering critic This multi-layered portrait is a fitting tribute to the man behind Ways of Seeing The Guardian - UK · Aug 10
Trump Could Kill This Solar Energy Stock, But Analysts Think It Has 1,380% Upside Potential in 2025 Down over 90% from all-time highs, Sunnova Energy is a solar stock that trades at a substantial discount to consensus price targets. Barchart · Mar 5, 2025
Photos of myself make me shudder in horror. Does that mean I’m hideous? Obsessing over pictures of yourself isn’t necessarily superficial. It’s almost inevitable, writes advice columnist Jessica DeFino The Guardian - US · Dec 19, 2024
Anne Michaels: ‘Language can’t represent brutality’ The Booker-shortlisted author on her inability to compromise, her friendship with John Berger, and the last book she gave as a gift The Guardian - UK · Nov 2, 2024
The 3.2 Million-Year-Old Lucy Fossil Reveals A Forgotten Truth About Humans Technological advancements in genetic analysis suggest that Lucy may have been naked, or at least much more thinly veiled. Inverse · Jul 6, 2024
What the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy fossil reveals about nudity and shame Fifty years ago, scientists discovered a nearly complete fossilized skull and hundreds of pieces of bone of a 3.2-million-year-old female specimen of the genus Australopithecus afarensis, often described as “the mother of us all.” During a celebration following her discovery, she was named “Lucy,” after the Beatles song “Lucy in… The Conversation · Jun 21, 2024
Gerald Cinamon obituary Chief designer for Penguin Books with a flair for pacing illustrated nonfiction, such as with Pelican’s Style and Civilization series The Guardian - UK · May 13, 2024
Best art history books for honing your cultural knowledge Discover the vibrant tapestry of the art world and its pioneers Evening Standard · Mar 14, 2024
Held by Anne Michaels review – still master of her universe Dazzling lyrical snapshots recall the dreamlike style of Fugitive Pieces in the poet’s third novel, a fluid examination of history, memory and generational trauma The Guardian - UK · Nov 19, 2023
‘I am all for strangeness’: Tilda Swinton on artistic integrity, acting and the afterlife The Oscar-winning Scottish actor answers questions from Observer readers and famous fans including Pedro Almodóvar, Wes Anderson and Elton John The Guardian - UK · Nov 12, 2023
Tremor by Teju Cole review – snapshot of a restless mind The Open City author traces a grieving teacher’s itinerant life in an enlightening autofictional novel sometimes hampered by its earnestness The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2023
Radical Landscapes at the William Morris Gallery review: a provocative but disjointed show From the right to roam to Greenham Common, this exhibition is about access to and the ownership of land Evening Standard · Oct 23, 2023
Libby Hall obituary Other Lives: Photographer, writer and collector whose treasury of canine photographs was described as possibly the largest ever amassed by one person The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2023
‘Pornographic chic’: can Helmut Newton’s sexist nudes really be fixed by gender-switching? Hani Hape has recreated the infamous photographer’s overtly sexual photographs of female nudes – using naked men instead. But the results, while fascinating, raise even more issues The Guardian - UK · Aug 28, 2023
The Guardian - UK · Apr 17, 2023 ‘Like an exploded iPhone’: why Sarah Sze is the perfect artist for the age of information overload The American artist’s planetarium-like structures combine painting, sculpture, architecture and even ladders, wire and scissors. They are impossible to take in all at once – much like modern life
The Guardian - UK · Feb 26, 2023 The big picture: bonds of friendship across species boundaries German photographer Yana Wernicke follows women saving farm animals from slaughter to explore our connection with fellow mammals
The Guardian - UK · Nov 27, 2022 Stress, exhaustion and 1,000 patients a day: the life of an English GP Behind the outcry about waiting times lies the anxiety that our cherished GP system will soon collapse. We witness life on the frontline
The Guardian - UK · Oct 14, 2022 Derrick Greaves obituary Artist whose first solo show was a popular and critical success, and who later taught printmaking at Norwich School of Art
The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2022 Alain Tanner obituary Swiss new wave film director whose work focused on characters alienated from mainstream society
The Guardian - UK · Aug 15, 2022 The big idea: why modern medicine can’t work without stories Few of us see the same GP twice, but the doctor-patient relationship saves lives
Tribune News Service · Aug 8, 2022 The US climate bill could make now the best time to go solar If signed into law as written, the climate bill before the U.S. Congress would change the calculus for American households thinking about going solar. The legislation stands to make that transition more affordable while also subsidizing purchases of electric cars, heat pumps, high-tech water heaters and battery-storage systems — clean-energy…
The Conversation · Jun 7, 2022 Ways of Seeing at 50: an icy blast of a book about male voyeurism, art, capitalism and so much more I still remember the shock when I first saw John Berger’s television series, Ways of Seeing, in 1972. In the years before Australia had colour television BBC art programs were often screened at the Art Gallery of NSW. (Previously the same venue had shown Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation).
The Guardian - UK · May 6, 2022 Radical Landscapes review – ‘Is loving green fields really wicked?’ It has some fabulous works, from a canal by Constable to a gnarled old tree by Tacita Dean, but this show’s radical v conservative thesis gets caught in the brambles – and the climate section is catastrophic
The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2022 Nukes in the brooks: the artists who weaponised landscape art From a cruise missile Constable to a rampaging neon giant, artists have always used rural settings to confront the uses and abuses of land. We go behind the scenes at a riveting new Liverpool show that captures their rebellious spirit
The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2022 Ways of Seeing at 50: how John Berger’s radical TV series changed our view of art It was an unlikely choice for BBC Two to schedule against Match of the Day. But Berger’s series and book now forms the bedrock of how we interpret art and advertising