Italy: I’ve got Rome on repeat
My year was topped and tailed with trips to Rome. In March, as the blossom unfurled along the Tiber and…
The new first lady
It was a race between the first dude — Bill — and the first nude — Melania. And in the…
Notes on California
The mood in California was apologetic. Most people we met seemed embarrassed that their country’s dirty laundry was being aired…
Notes on California
The mood in California was apologetic. Most people we met seemed embarrassed that their country’s dirty laundry was being aired…
Unhappy Pill
A study came out last week that should have caused great alarm. For 13 years, researchers at the University of Copenhagen studied…
‘I have become their voice’
When the model and actress Anastasia Lin was crowned Miss World Canada last year, a fairly easy and lucrative career…
Heads in the cloud
Ask me what I had for lunch yesterday and I couldn’t tell you. Names disappear as swiftly as smoke.-Birthdays, capital…
It started with a cardboard box: discovering the joys of indoor gardening
A year or so ago, I inherited a cardboard box filled with plants. It was an offshoot from an enormous…
Indoor gardening
A year or so ago, I inherited a cardboard box filled with plants. It was an offshoot from an enormous…
Beware the baby-snatchers: how social services can ruin your family
Why many mothers with post-natal depression now dread a visit from social services
How Norland nannies became the ultimate status symbol
Edwardian childcare has been updated, and the oligarchs can’t get enough
Unreliable evidence
I hadn’t really thought much about pixels before, despite spending a large portion of my day looking at them. After…
How the pixel became a key feature of drone warfare
I hadn’t really thought much about pixels before, despite spending a large portion of my day looking at them. After…
The young entrepreneurs making the best of Spain’s crisis
Lara Prendergast finds delicacies amid the dilapidation in Andalucía
Whose hair are you buying?
British people buy £43 million worth of human hair a year. So who’s selling?
Better than Robert? Sonia Delaunay at Tate Modern reviewed
In 1978, shortly before she died, the artist Sonia Delaunay was asked in an interview whether she considered herself a…
An earthquake with a Baroque legacy in Sicily
Syracuse is a handsome place, steeped in a rich historical broth. At the tip sits Ortygia, an island offshoot, which…
Low life’s Limpopo legend
Not everything is forgotten in the new Johannesburg, finds Lara Prendergast
Does Allen Jones deserve a retrospective at the Royal Academy?
It has been a vintage season for mannequins. At the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, an exhibition called Silent Partners looks…
Tate Britain’s Turner show reveals an old master - though the Spectator didn’t think so at the time
Juvenilia is the work produced during an artist’s youth. It would seem logical to think, therefore, that an artist’s output…
Scoops, snark and jihad – this is Vice News's war
War can reshape the medium of television. The First Gulf War was a landmark moment in broadcasting: CNN had reporters…
Less cuddly, more creepy: The Human Factor at the Hayward Gallery
Jeff Koons’s ‘Bear and Policeman’ has been used to advertise the Hayward Gallery’s latest show The Human Factor (until 7…
Space invaders
Jeff Koons’s ‘Bear and Policeman’ has been used to advertise the Hayward Gallery’s latest show The Human Factor (until 7…
Space invaders
Jeff Koons’s ‘Bear and Policeman’ has been used to advertise the Hayward Gallery’s latest show The Human Factor (until 7…
Has the rake progressed?
Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress has been a rich resource for artists. Film-makers recognise his modern moral subjects as an ancestor…
