Paul Keegan

The quiet brilliance of street photographer Saul Leiter

6 April 2024 9:00 am

This is the second exhibition of mid-century New York street photography at the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes. The first,…

As early as 1895, Octave Uzanne foresaw ‘the end of books’ with the invention of the portable audiobook. Illustration from ‘Contes pour les bibliophiles’

The pleasures of reading aloud

8 April 2017 9:00 am

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Snow on snow

10 December 2016 9:00 am

Here is William Diaper in 1722, translating Oppian’s Halieuticks (a Greek epic poem on the loves of the fishes): As…

Seeing red

20 August 2016 9:00 am

Early on in his excellent and protean biography of a colour, Spike Bucklow quotes Goethe, writing in 1809: Every rope…