The Pursuit of Art Architecture and photographing the jaalis of

and photographing the jaalis of India

like the medieval Chinese abbot who was shown round the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris by the King of France himself

Numerous interviews with people from all walks of life give a first-hand impression of what it has been like to grow up or settle in the region

Khatt is an extensive visual documentation of the found typography and calligraphy in Egypt

if there are emergent institutional models for progressive art and curatorial research practices

The Pursuit of Art Architecture and photographing the jaalis ofIn the course of a career spent thinking and writing about art, Martin Gayford has travelled all over the world in pursuit of first hand encounters with art and artists. Gayfords journeys, often to rather inaccessible places, involve frustrations and complications, but also serendipitous meetings and outcomes, which he makes as much part of each story as the final destination. Ever amusing, informative and self deprecating, Gayford recounts trips to