City secrets: outsider art and lost rooms
A city of lost rooms: where Jewish scholars vanish, artist seers battle their obsessions and twisted worlds thrive.
The wonderful folklore of Bhutan
Crazy monks, strange creatures roaming the mountains, thunder dragons, flying gurus, and penis art. Bhutan is a little bit special and so is its folklore.
Hinterland: St Peter’s Seminary ruins revisited
The brutalist religious ruins transformed into a mesmerising sound and light show.
Path of memories: we buy rubbish, we sell antiques
Unpeeling the layers of history in east Glasgow; a path of music and art; and a character who opened a massage parlour called Sheik-Ma-Tadger.
City edgelands: a sanctuary for oddballs and fly-tip art
Exploring a lost wilderness in the city – a sanctuary for strange characters, fly-tip art and foraging.
The wonderful world of Glasgow street art and graffiti
A panda down an alleyway. A dalek rusting at the bottom of the Clyde. Abstract geometry in a garden. It’s the wonderful world of Glasgow street and graffiti art.
Brandalism, Banksy and Bastiat: advert sabotage in Glasgow
Walking down Woodlands Road, Glasgow yesterday I came across this piece of advert sabotage and subversion on a bus stop.
The murder of the English Romantic rural dream
In which the writer accidentally enables the murder of the English Romantic rural dream by an anarchic conservative.
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