calligraphy
The art of the arabesque
The title of this book, By the Pen and What They Write, is a quotation from the Qur’an and comes…
Agitprop, love trucks and leaflet bombs: the art of protest
Titles can be misleading, and in case you have visions of microwave ovens running amok or washing machines crunching up…
What my addiction to Chinese painting made me do
My addiction to Chinese landscape painting began in 1965 at the V&A, in a travelling exhibition of the Crawford Collection…