Charles I: King and collector
From martinet to martyr at the Royal Academy's show examining the art collection of Charles I
Music New York
Photographing a city of buskers
Monument to a moment
Why is the BBC's Civilisations such a mess?
No Joy At The Tate
David Hockney's 1979 view of the gallery, as told to Miriam Gross
City where history is still being made
'The last time we were in Kiev together, I was a toddler and my mother a young painter with dissident views'
Capitalist rebirth of Hoxha’s hellhole
Tirana, capital of Albania, has been transformed — a bustling, revitalised city, far from the repressive dictatorship of the past
The naked and the dead, Nevada-style
"The first unusual characteristic was that Hof was a self-described pimp, the owner of several brothels in rural Nevada. The second was that, by the time election day came around, Hof was
Opposites meet in the land of Scrugletopia
The debate between Sir Roger Scruton and Terry Eagleton enhances our national discourse
Poles apart, linked by one instrument
Chopin and Wanda Landowska were very different musicians with only one thing in common
Philip Pullman: siding with Satan
The fantasy writer is indebted to the Inklings, whose Christianity he rejects in favour of gnosticism
Criminal Damage to the Law
Six Greenpeace activists were cleared in September of causing £30,000-worth of criminal damage to a coal-fired power station in Kent.
Be civil to siblings
"The government seems to have set itself on a course to discriminate against one minority group: cohabiting blood relatives"