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Sins of omission
Georgians Revealed: Life, Style and the Making of Modern Britain at the British Library (until 11 March) would have you…
Sins of omission
Georgians Revealed: Life, Style and the Making of Modern Britain at the British Library (until 11 March) would have you…
The man who transformed houses
Alec Cobbe is a designer, painter, musician, picture restorer and collector, and has recently donated drawings, photographs and other archives…
A connoisseur’s eye
Alec Cobbe is a designer, painter, musician, picture restorer and collector, and has recently donated drawings, photographs and other archives…
A connoisseur’s eye
Alec Cobbe is a designer, painter, musician, picture restorer and collector, and has recently donated drawings, photographs and other archives…
Walk on the wild side with the Gruffalo
If, like me, you are allergic to pantomime (‘Oh, no you’re not!’; ‘Oh, yes I am!’) then help is at…
Walk on the wild side
If, like me, you are allergic to pantomime (‘Oh, no you’re not!’; ‘Oh, yes I am!’) then help is at…
Walk on the wild side
If, like me, you are allergic to pantomime (‘Oh, no you’re not!’; ‘Oh, yes I am!’) then help is at…
How I felt when I stepped inside the Hadron Collider
I have a new party piece. I can explain, with a degree of clarity and precision, how the Hadron Collider…
Collision course
I have a new party piece. I can explain, with a degree of clarity and precision, how the Hadron Collider…
Collision course
I have a new party piece. I can explain, with a degree of clarity and precision, how the Hadron Collider…
Blackfish and the scandal of caged killer whales
If you were in a bathtub for 25 years, don’t you think you’d get a little bit psychotic? Well, yes,…
What a life
If you were in a bathtub for 25 years, don’t you think you’d get a little bit psychotic? Well, yes,…
What a life
If you were in a bathtub for 25 years, don’t you think you’d get a little bit psychotic? Well, yes,…
Mass destruction in an age of mass media
Catalyst: Contemporary Art and War at the Imperial War Museum North (until 23 February) is alone worth a trip to…
Images of war
Catalyst: Contemporary Art and War at the Imperial War Museum North (until 23 February) is alone worth a trip to…
Images of war
Catalyst: Contemporary Art and War at the Imperial War Museum North (until 23 February) is alone worth a trip to…
The Discerning Eye show is full of great art pieces. I know because I chose them
If you want to buy a picture or a piece of sculpture and have lots of money or not very…
Eye witness
If you want to buy a picture or a piece of sculpture and have lots of money or not very…
Eye witness
If you want to buy a picture or a piece of sculpture and have lots of money or not very…
How we beat the Boche — at sidecar racing
There’s courage, there’s fearlessness, and then there’s the sort of sublime audacity you need to do something like sidecar racing.…
Double trouble
There’s courage, there’s fearlessness, and then there’s the sort of sublime audacity you need to do something like sidecar racing.…
Double trouble
There’s courage, there’s fearlessness, and then there’s the sort of sublime audacity you need to do something like sidecar racing.…
Nick Cave is still raising hell
As Sunday night’s storm clouds gathered, one of rock’s great polymath-storytellers whipped up a tempest of his own on the…
Songs of love and hate
As Sunday night’s storm clouds gathered, one of rock’s great polymath-storytellers whipped up a tempest of his own on the…
