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Paradise lost
The American dream was a consumerist idyll: all of life was to be packaged, stylised, affordable and improvable. Three bedrooms,…
Paradise lost
The American dream was a consumerist idyll: all of life was to be packaged, stylised, affordable and improvable. Three bedrooms,…
From page to stage
Reading Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet is a heady experience. You not only see, hear, know her characters — you can…
From page to stage
Reading Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet is a heady experience. You not only see, hear, know her characters — you can…
Snap, crackle and pop
As you go into the new Wellcome Collection exhibition, Electricity: The Spark of Life, you might have in mind a…
Snap, crackle and pop
As you go into the new Wellcome Collection exhibition, Electricity: The Spark of Life, you might have in mind a…
Snap, crackle and pop
As you go into the new Wellcome Collection exhibition, Electricity: The Spark of Life, you might have in mind a…
Thoroughly modern Monteverdi
‘Eppur si muove’ — And yet it moves. Galileo’s defiant insistence that the Earth revolves round the Sun, his refusal…
Thoroughly modern Monteverdi
‘Eppur si muove’ — And yet it moves. Galileo’s defiant insistence that the Earth revolves round the Sun, his refusal…
Some like it hot
In the mid-6th century, legend has it, St Brendan set off from Ireland with a currach-load of monks on a…
Some like it hot
In the mid-6th century, legend has it, St Brendan set off from Ireland with a currach-load of monks on a…
Hull’s a poppin’
In early January, lastminute.com recommended its top 15 destinations for 2017. In 12th spot, just above Montreal, Croatia and Japan,…
Hull’s a poppin’
In early January, lastminute.com recommended its top 15 destinations for 2017. In 12th spot, just above Montreal, Croatia and Japan,…
The only way is up
Michael Andrews once noted the title of an American song on a scrap of paper: ‘Up is a Nice Place…
The only way is up
Michael Andrews once noted the title of an American song on a scrap of paper: ‘Up is a Nice Place…
Ideal homes
Artists, poets and philosophers have not paid much attention to Milton Keynes …although comedians have. This urban experiment has been…
Ideal homes
Artists, poets and philosophers have not paid much attention to Milton Keynes …although comedians have. This urban experiment has been…
Haus of ill repute
Here in Munich, in the gallery that Hitler built, this year’s big hit show is a spectacular display of modern…
Haus of ill repute
Here in Munich, in the gallery that Hitler built, this year’s big hit show is a spectacular display of modern…
Munchkins and mischiefs
Arthur Rackham shouldn’t have lived in anything as conventional as a house. It should have been a gingerbread cottage, like…
Munchkins and mischiefs
Arthur Rackham shouldn’t have lived in anything as conventional as a house. It should have been a gingerbread cottage, like…
Back in the USSR
For much of 1517 Michelangelo Buonarroti was busy quarrying marble in the mountains near Carrara. From time to time, however,…
Back in the USSR
For much of 1517 Michelangelo Buonarroti was busy quarrying marble in the mountains near Carrara. From time to time, however,…
O come, let us adore him
On 27 July 1613 a man prostrated himself in the church of San Pedro Mártir in Toledo, having first made…
O come, let us adore him
On 27 July 1613 a man prostrated himself in the church of San Pedro Mártir in Toledo, having first made…
