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• Britain’s fabulous totem poles – Mike Pitts – Digging Deeper

  What connects Berkhamsted, Salford and Edinburgh with remote forests on the Pacific coast? Sixteen totem poles, traditionally carved in cedar. They are informed by beliefs, values and artistic convent...

• Stonehenge stories on Twitter – Mike Pitts – Digging Deeper

  How to Build Stonehenge comes out on February 17 2022. Published by Thames & Hudson, it has many illustrations (including new photos and diagrams by me) and is the first book to focus exclusively and ...

• Books I: Getting sorted – Mike Pitts – Digging Deeper

  I sorted out my books over Christmas. It had been a job looming for years, as I moved from one house to another watching them get steadily more disorganised, spending more and more time looking for ti...

• A new gallery for London – Mike Pitts – Digging Deeper

  Quite a day for museums in London today. In Bloomsbury, the Queen went to the British Museum to “reopen” the Sir Joseph Hotung Gallery of China and South Asia, after a major refurbishment (she opened ...

• Getting started – Mike Pitts – Digging Deeper

  I have a very clear, strong idea of what I plan to do on the plinth, and I’m very excited about it. But I don’t want to reveal what that is (mainly for reasons connected to the impact of the work, but...

• “Digging Deeper” – Mike Pitts – Digging Deeper

  When I left the Alexander Keiller Museum in April 1984, my hope was to make a new living from writing, photography and broadcasting. In the event, much of my time came to be taken up helping my then w...