Review of Chapter 7 in What Good are the Arts? by John Carey. Transpositions has been hosting reviews of each chapter of this book from 28 March – 3 April 2011. For the full list of reviews across the week…
The Power of the Word: Poetry, Theology and Life Conference This conference is organized by Heythrop College and the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and is being held from 17th-18th June 2011. Religion has always been part of…
An interview with Dan Thompson, founder of Artists and Makers – an initiative which works with local authorities and real estate agents to make empty shop and other spaces available as exhibition and studio spaces for artists across the UK.…
Field of Dreams?: Contemporary Explorations at the Interface, between Religion and Popular Culture 5-7 May 2011 Sarum College, Salisbury Why might TV be as significant as Bach? How are faith communities to deal with what people actually do with the…
I spend most of my time reading and writing about Edith Nesbit. Most Brits remember her best for her novel, The Railway Children. The stage-play adaptation has seen sold out runs in York and London for the last three summers…
The last Tidbits was on Art and Artists. It was intended to be wide ranging. This week, following the Rookmaaker symposium, tidbits will be a little more modest. Indeed, titling it Aesthetics and the Church might be an overreach. Nonetheless,…
This is a bumper tidbits post! We’ve been hearing how much the posts about Artists and Art are particularly enjoyed, so I thought that a post featuring Artists, recent projects and lots and lots of links will be the best…
If you’ve been following Transpositions over the last week you would have seen the discussion that followed Jim McCullough’s review of Nancy Pearcey’s Saving Leonardo. Though that discussion was about appreciating the visual arts, I’d like to pick up on…
In the past week, I’ve scanned almost 1000 photographs and historical documents. Some of them date back to the turn of the 20th century. They record both the ordinary and the momentous. It’s been a week of cautious curiosity, of…