John Baker’s Blog

Tuesday 8 April – Tuesday 22 April 2008
Roots and Wings Exhibition
artsdepot presents an exhibition celebrating the work of its participatory arts programme for refugees, asylum seekers, migrants and newly arrived communities.
Working with professional female photographer, Poppy Szaybo, the images have all been created by women aged between 16-85 years, from countries such as China, Somalia, [...]

A day out yesterday, to the Royal Academy to see some of the paintings we’ve never seen before.
From Russia: French and Russian Master Paintings 1870–1925 from Moscow and St Petersburg

The exhibition presents modern masterpieces drawn from Russia’s principal collections: the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art and the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and [...]

Treehugger has some great photographs of a house made from recycled newspapers:
Londoner’s have three free newspapers foisted on them every day in the streets. This adds up to a lot of waste and a lot of people are getting pretty upset by it. As a response to this litter, and as a political statement about [...]

York Theatre Royal has been hosting the English Touring Theatre’s production of Uncle Vanya, directed by Peter Hall, for the past few days. We were, luckily, at the matinee on Saturday afternoon.
This is not a play I know very well, though I love Chekhov’s insight into the shared deep place which is simultaneously the seat [...]