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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

I have for some years now been creating a series of works composed of toys and other mass-produced cultural artifacts, which could be seen as Joseph Cornell boxes writ large: they are four feet long, three feet tall and between three and six inches deep. What interests me about mass market toys is that because they’re designed to grab kids’ attention as forcefully and quickly as possible they go right to the heart of the way people see the world at a particular time, revealing things about our culture and...

The Great Airport Coalition

The story of  how Santa Monica Park became an Airport – and of the struggle to return it to being a green oasis in the city

Five Minutes with Gavin Scott and Kenneth Grahame

This week’s Five Minutes with Gavin Scott takes us to sea, as the Water Rat hears tales of the Mediterranean and the Levant from a mysterious sea-farer in Kenneth Grahame’s ever-delightful Wind in the Willows.

Five Minutes with Gavin Scott and John Donne

Gavin Scott celebrates the roller-coaster life of poet John Donne and the witty, sexy poems he left behind for our delight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkFIB...

Five Minutes with Gavin Scott and Mark Twain

Celebrating Mark Twain’s hilarious put-down of James Fenimore Cooper, author of The Last of the Mohicans.Here’s the Youtube link.

Five Minutes with Gavin Scott, Alfred Tennyson and King Arthur

The finale of Alfred Tennyson’s wonderful poem Morte d’Arthur is on my my favourite poems. I hope you enjoy it too. Here’s the link to Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9MV9...    

Five Minutes with Gavin Scott and Raymond Chandler

This week’s Five Minutes with Gavin Scott celebrates Raymond Chandler’s wry salute to my beleagured city in his Philip Marlowe novel The Little Sister.

Five Minutes with Gavin Scott Episodes 1 & 2

Last year I began a podcast celebrating my favorite pieces of prose and poetry from 70+ years of reading, and this year I’ve begun it again and promise to release a new episode every Friday. Here re the links to the first two, on Youtube.  

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Last year I began a podcast celebrating my favorite pieces of prose and poetry from 70+ years of reading, and this year I’ve begun it again and promise to release a new episode every Friday. Here re the links to the first two, on Youtube.  

Park in Danger

As the end of Santa Monica airport nears, some people are trying to overturn the massive local vote to turn it into a park by pushing for the land to be used for housing – so I made a video which I hope will alert people to what’s going on. You can check it out on http://bit.ly/Ep1-ParkInDanger