I’ve only just discovered a gem of an exhibition, Japanese Ghosts and Demons, which fills but one small room of Oxford’s giant Ashmolean museum. Nevertheless, its seventeen prints contain such a fantastic mix of the grotesque, the cute and the comic that I’ve decided to squeeze the creatures they depict into my list for 2010. …
The UK is covered in snow at the moment, bringing all the usual travel chaos and outraged claims that we should by now have learned how to command the weather to our bidding. On the morning it started I was lucky enough to not have to be anywhere in a hurry, then lucky enough to …
I had one of those rare moments of quiet synchronicity the other day when I was doing the recycling. In a pile of newspapers I noticed an old article from the New York Times, which stood out because of this amazing accompanying art by Jason Holley. The article is about the tenacity of Coyote, about …
Bad news today for the large flying fox, which has just been given an extinction warning. Apparently it could be flapping its way to the land of Dodos and Tasmanian Wolves in as little as six years. I think it’s easy for people in places like the UK to overlook the human and economic factors …
Check this out… sound familiar? Once upon a time there was a mummy bear, a daddy bear and a baby bear, right? Not really. Once upon a time there was a fox… I’ve never really been a fan of Goldilocks. It always seemed as sickly as Mummy Bear’s porridge. Goldilocks herself was the problem. She …