September 27, 2011

From the 1940s onwards the Polish-born Jewish painter Josef Herman (1911-2000) was a significant figure in British art. His path here, however, was a helter-skelter one. He fled his native Warsaw both

A few weeks ago I was searching for something in our basement and I came across two little memories of my childhood. When I was a baby my parents bought me two

"Buy land," Mark Twain famously advised. "They've stopped making it." A century after Twain's death, according to an organisation called the Seasteading Institute (SI), production is resumed."Seasteading" is a 30-year-old portmanteau word