Ali Smith's How to be Both: warm, funny, subtle, intelligent – and baffling
Pity the poor art historian writing a survey of painters from Giotto to, say, Poussin. In order to produce a…
Wonders written on the wall
‘Take away, utterly extinct and destroy all shrines … pictures, paintings and all other monuments of feigned miracles, pilgrimages, idolatry…
The selfie from Akhenaten to Tracey Emin
If ever there was a time to write a book about self-portraits, this must be it. ‘Past interest in the…
Weaving Scotland's history
A couple of years ago, while tracking down paintings for the Public Catalogue Foundation in the far north of Scotland,…
How to avoid bankers in your nativity scene
With an eye to the blasphemy underlying some of the loveliest Renaissance painting, Honor Clerk will be choosing her Christmas cards more carefully this year
Seaweeds, by Ole G. Mouritsen - review
On 14 April each year, nori fishermen gather on a hillside overlooking Ariake Bay on Kyushu in southern Japan to…
