Brigitte Bardot is dead. The French screen legend and animal rights activist has passed away at 91. Tributes from political leaders and cultural figures underscored her immense influence on 20th-century culture, citing her roles in cinema, her advocacy for animal welfare, and the indelible image she

In the spirit of pointless, subjective artistic judgements, here's the roundup you've all been waiting for. Including the MOST BRILLIANTLY DESCRIBED MESS OF A BOOK FILLED, ASHTRAY CHOKED BEDROOM AWARD.

Carlos ‘Luca’ Idrobo produced Love Letters to Walking Art and Science, a cumulative piece that honours pivotal artistic and scientific works focused on walking as both motif and practice, combining photography, drawing, light-drawings, performance, and land art.His work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, he reflects on the piece. Walking a line has been standard practice

Happy Holidays!I haven’t been online much this year.So, this is just a quick post to say that there has been a lot of work going on behind the scenes!And, there’s a lot of new work to reveal in future months… All the very best in the New Year,Alex...

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Too much turkey and Baileys? Blow away the Christmas cobwebs on one of our rambles. And if that doesn’t work, they all end at a pub for a hair of the dog Source: 11 of the UK’s best winter walks – all ending at a cosy pub | Winter walks | The Guardian

Claudia Zeiske walked From Mountain to Sea, a 220km walk through Aberdeenshire, and a COVID-19 commemoration walk, marked by benches, music, an embroidered tablecloth, illustrated map, and film.Her work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, she reflects on the experience. Over two years, I walked from mountain to sea forth and back across Aberdeenshire in the

After a long walk to the east end of the city to get the screen on my phone replaced (it wasn’t the screen—it was the screen protector! a Christmas miracle!), and before a well-deserved nap (with the tabby cuddled up against my shoulder), I read Simon Armitage’s Dwell. Like Blossomise, it’s a chapbook more than … Continue reading 56. Simon Armitage, Dwell →

With support from SAHA Association, Delfina Foundation welcomes applications from artists based in Turkey for Source: Open call for artists from Turkey

We are seeking two emerging visual artists aged 18-30 based in Greater Manchester, to join us on an international exchange programme and residency in Ankara in 2026. Source: OPEN CALL: UK-Türkiye Artist Exchange and Residency

In September 1874, during the negotiations that led to Treaty 4, the treaty between First Nations and the Crown that covers southern Saskatchewan and parts of southeastern Alberta and southwestern Manitoba, kamooses, one of the Plains Cree or nêhiyaw Chiefs who was speaking on behalf of his people, asked the federal treaty commissioners this haunting … Continue reading 55. Tanya Talaga, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Denial, and Hard Truths in a Northern City →

Where does this expression come from? Describing someone as being smart or more knowledgeable than us mere mortals, and sometime used as an alternative to ‘smug’. Shakespeare again? Apparently not, its derivation is harder to establish but is thought to be mid-Victorian from the 1860s. “Cleverclogs” was apparently the name of a racing greyhound, and

New York isn’t the oldest city in the United States of America, and it certainly isn’t the newest. But it is, quite possibly, the American city where more layers of history coexist than any other, a quality that manifests most vividly in its built environment. Source: Take a 2-Hour Walking Tour Through New York City:

Gordon and ‘The Flyer’ Inside the Gloucester shed, Gordon was not a happy engine. -I am a large, strong blue engine, he moaned, whilst his driver fussed around him, oiling his joints and polishing his brass with a greasy cloth, -I know what is best for...

From the Marmaray underpasses to the erased slogans in Gezi Park, Irem Guler has spent two decades documenting Turkey’s graffiti and street art, tracing how it is made, claimed and erased. Source: Suck my walls: One woman’s archive of Turkey’s street art – AL-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Laura Reeder walked with local youth and neighbors over two underused lawns in the City of Syracuse, NY. The walks turned undervalued public fields into living drawings, exploring how walking in public space connects ecology, safety, and community.Her work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, she reflects on the experience. My year as resident artist with

I’m super excited for the upcoming Winter Seed Sowing Workshop on January 17! If you can’t make it that day, I’m also offering the Winter Seed Sowing zine on my website (free PDF for download, paid for printed/shipped version).

Walking the Bypass: Notes on Place from the Side of the Road has been reviewed in The Literary Review of Canada. So many excellent books published in this country get little attention; Walking the Bypass has received two reviews, this one and the earlier discussion in Harper’s Magazine. I am beyond grateful. Check out the new review, which appears in the … Continue reading Walking the Bypass reviewed in The Literary Review of Canada →

Day 528 - Darkening and 2.1 km drawing.  Retiring and 4.9 km drawing.

Back in March, I was interviewed by Andrew Stuck for the Talking Walking Podcast. Here it is, along with a cheering birdsong chorus.

Dario Laganà went on a 1000 km walk in Norway, and produced the short film Like a Fern Between Rocks, documenting this solitary, nomadic experience. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Marŝarto Awards 2025.  Dario earlier wrote about his experience in A loud solitude, and goes deeper into his experience, below. All of my

I’m hosting a webinar January 30 at 11am CT – I hope you’ll join me! “Join us in the new year on January 30, 2026, to discover how zines and independent publications can deepen community engagement, expand access to planning conversations, and creatively document projects. After a brief introduction to the role of zines in […]

Source: Where Portland walks: How the city and community built a safer trail network together – Smart Growth America

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