Thursday 18 March 2010

Marcus Westbury discusses the blurring of the lines between professional and amateur artists, largely driven by the DIT ethos of the internet.

Westbury will be part of the panel discussing ‘Art in the City’, public art from graffiti to civic monuments, as part of our Reading the City programme, this Friday night at the Wheeler Centre.

Book here.

Ian McEwan’s latest novel Solar, published today, is a look at climate change through the eyes of a fairly unappealing, middle-aged scientist.

Solar: Ian McEwan

The Observer is disenchanted with the book’s physicist protagonist, a character whose insatiable appetites would seem to act as a metaphor for a world that is surely destroying its own mass consumption.

The Guardian’s Digested read damns it, “Solar Power: No thanks.”