Royal Ely
A visit to Ely Cathedral perfectly encapsulates the history of England and her architecture.
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Giotto The Great
Great art endures; great art forever changes.
Floating In The Void
Alexander Calder’s mobiles display both a musical stateliness and a satisfying sense of equlibrium
Chelsea Or Montmartre?
The artists and writers who pursued the muse in fin-de-siècle London and Paris
Scraping and Scumbling
A Tate retrospective of Frank Auerbach’s work reveals a man doggedly committed to his art
Beauty Of The Beast
Rembrandt Bugatti showed the very soul of his animal subjects
How Olympian Was Renaissance Man?
Leonardo is seen as the presiding genius of his age, but his drawings reveal a reassuringly human artist
Saving Greece
The UK should solve the Greek crisis by offering to buy the rest of the Parthenon
Sentimental Nihilism And Popular Culture
Commercial art forms may yet save the Western tradition from its propensity to self-destruction
The Little Prince Of Queens
Joseph Cornell’s shadow boxes are poetic windows on the mind of a man with a restricted life
Ben Uri At 100
The centenary exhibition of "the art museum for everyone".
Civilising The English Yahoos
Three decades of erudite correspondence between two of the greatest art historians of the 20th century