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Monday, 30 March 2020
Fiery Pegasus, William Blake, 1809, The British Museum For these days of national (not to say international) crisis, I have …
Continue reading "Picture of the Day: Blake’s Fiery Pegasus"
By Andrew Wilton
Saturday, 28 March 2020
For some years now I (like several others) have been keeping a check on the current use of our language. …
Continue reading "21st century Wordwatch – infamy"
By Andrew Wilton
Saturday, 14 March 2020
Oslo is not a city high on most people’s lists of places to visit. But anyone interested in twentieth-century art, …
Continue reading "Parklife: the joy of Gustav Vigeland, Oslo"
By Andrew Wilton
Saturday, 7 March 2020
You go through the door into this exhibition and – boom! In front of you is a two-and-a-half-metre square painting …
Continue reading "British Baroque: Power and Illusion review – mind-boggling and sublime"
By Andrew Wilton
Saturday, 29 February 2020
The other evening, I was sitting in a smartish restaurant in Seville, drinking a pre-dinner sol y sombra (a wonderful …
Continue reading "Why we should resist the incessant spread of muzak"
By Andrew Wilton
Saturday, 22 February 2020
When I moved to Chislehurst lately I discovered that many of my London friends had either never heard of the …
Continue reading "Napoleon IV – the Chislehurst native who died fighting in the British army"
By Andrew Wilton
Saturday, 15 February 2020
We were puzzled by the flyers stapled to the trees and telegraph poles: “Taureaux Piscine,” they read: “Vendredi 22 heures.” …
Continue reading "What we can learn from the corrida"
By Andrew Wilton
