Image prompted by Phil Hall Dealing with the Existential Shock Something real did happen! The object was first detected on July 1, 2025 by the ATLAS telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile. I wrote to Avi Loeb 9 days after it was detected on 10th July 2025. He acknowledged receipt and thanked me and I…

Fuchsia coloured Clematis. Photograph Phil Hall The nature and meaning of colour, and its use by capitalism and imperialism as an instrument of power and control by Phil Hall When you walk into Chapel Matisse in Vence, or Chapelle du Rosaire, the experience is a powerful one. The blue and yellow colours radiate in…

On the set of Memoir of a Snail. Still by kind permission of ArenaMedia INTERVIEWED BY PAUL HALAS & PHIL HALL Kerry Drumm has variously been an animator, designer, illustrator, film archivist, production coordinator, screenwriter, playwright and children’s book author… in fact when I first familiarised myself with her body of work I thought,…

The Ukrainian nationalist crowd milling about Union House in Odessa/Odesa after the fire on 2 May 2014. ‘Remember Katyn!’ is written on the notice board next to the building which was set on fire, penning up and murdering 42 anti-Maidan protestors. Photograph HOBOPOCC Or How the Capitalist Ruling Class Tries to Destroy Our Ability…

by Phil Hall We lived in the Zona Rosa. The posh university I worked at was also in the west of the city. Some of the students were spoiled. They remind me of rotten characters in the book by DBC Pierre: Vernon God Little. In the evening, once a week, I trained teachers at…

Designed by Carolina Servín CONGRATULATIONS TO ARS NOTORIA’S PARTICIPANTS IN THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM OF POETRY AND PHILOSOPHY On behalf of Ars Notoria: The Art of the Noteworthy, I extend my warmest congratulations to all the participants, organisers and editors behind this year’s International Colloquium of Poetry and Philosophy. It is a privilege to celebrate…

Patrick McManus. Photograph courtesy of the author Patrick McManus, survivor poet performer was once an architect in Denmark. He lives in Raynes Park. His career as a poet has spanned more than six decades, beginning with an early publication in the Brixton School of Building magazine in 1959. However, it was in the mid-1990s…

Lithograph designed by Sudeep Sen In the golden age of Dutch painting, a master like Vermeer or Gerard Dou would often withhold a single work. This was the pronkstuk, the showpiece. It was not commissioned by a patron, nor intended for the wall of a rich Dutch merchant. It remained in the artist’s studio, a…

Dad held the onion in his left hand. In his right, a small paring knife. And he cut. Photograph by Iqbal Farooz Instinct, inheritance and becoming a Masaalchi by Arun Kapil My father never learned how to chop an onion. At least, not in the way I would later be taught. There was no…

Study for Leda and the Swan (now lost), c. 1506–1508, Chatsworth House, England Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Sylvia Vetta is a British author, journalist, and community activist whose work explores the intersections of gender, class, and race. Raised working-class in Luton, she married her Indian-born husband Atam Vetta at a time of widespread hostility toward mixed marriages, an…