There seems to be a lot going on right now in London’s cultural scene. Sadly, your reporter cannot be everywhere, so imagine my chagrin when I saw…

With news just in that the Bank of England has decided to raise the base interest rate by a whopping half a percentage point, there is a definite air…

The medieval Church produced a superstar.It is no great surprise, therefore, that a charming exhibition at the National Gallery includes so many…

For years now I have read accounts of the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy, yet never been. It claims to be the world’s oldest and biggest …

Once again, Boris Johnson is big news in Britain. He’s larger than life, after all. He’s the Big Dog.It’s well known that Johnson is a huge admirer…

It’s never easy to divine whether the labels attached to artworks describe reality. Museums and galleries habitually attach such labels, because they…

One of the undoubted advantages of not being rich – or, more to the point, famous – is the ability to forget about the existence of tabloid…

A few years after the death of Pablo Picasso, a New York band called Modern Lovers wrote a sarcastic song about how some people tried to pick up…

When news first came in that Martin Amis, the celebrated British novelist, had died at the age of 73, I braced myself for a torrent of obituaries and…

Sometimes a retrospective exhibition shows us hidden aspects of an artist. We learn that while they were doing the things they’re famous for, they…