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I spent all of last year drawing London-looking, exploring, finding new bits and revisiting, considering, reassessing and re-evaluating familiar places I thought I knew well. Wandering and drawing made me notice and

Meaning only to skim through Alain de Botton's new book Religion for Atheists (Hamish Hamilton, £18.99) I read every word, engaged by his wit and limpid prose, impressed by the sheer plenitude

According to the great 19th-century draughtsman Jean-Auguste Ingres, "Drawing is the probity of art." This aphorism has been put to the test recently by the noise surrounding the graphic work of Lucian

The Photo League was a New York cooperative organisation founded in 1936 as an offshoot of the Workers' Film and Photo League. It was disbanded in 1951 after being included on the

After leaving art school, Matthew specialised in drawing nudes, executing compelling life-size studies of young contemporaries. When he subsequently confined himself to carrying out portrait commissions, the careerist approach proved stultifying. The

I consider myself a New Yorker now, but I was born and raised in London. Before settling for art I considered standing for parliament, which would have placed me squarely in the

Formerly a successful investment banker, British photographer Marcus Bleasdale has spent the last ten years documenting conflict and human rights abuses in the Balkans, Djibouti and Darfur. But since his switch to

Book review of 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

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

In 2004 John Coldstream published a life of Dirk Bogarde so good that no one should ever feel the need to write another one. Coldstream was a literary editor by trade, and