LADY PETCHEY
She is one of the most successful British sculptors of the 21st century – a prolific, self-taught artist whose famous client list reads like a...
The virtuoso known as “the guitarists’ guitarist”
Jeff Beck Jeff Beck, who has died aged 78, was widely regarded as one of the greatest rock guitarists of all time, A “dazzling and...
Spare by Prince Harry
“You might feel as if you’ve already read Prince Harry’s memoir,” But when you read it from cover to cover, Spare proves to be much...
Your chance to be a girl with a pearl
LIKE OKUK, the Mauritshuis in The Hague is famous for its frontispiece. Unlike us, however, it has only one Girl with a Pearl Earring ,...
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis
“It began, probably, in a cave,” “In the sweltering August of 1919”, a 30-year-old bank clerk named Thomas Stearns Eliot – on a walking holiday...
The Hotel Bel-Air in California has long provided sanctuary to the stars
Like the morning after a glamorous Hollywood launch party, a period of recuperation from the carousing of Christmas is in order. The Hotel Bel-Air, set...
Shear genius
Christopher Stocks traces the story of topiary, from its ancient origins to the modern day WE don’t know who first looked at a bush and...
The Arts as a bulletproof political investment
IT’S been another tough year for the Arts and—at least in prospect—2023 doesn’t look any easier. Audiences and visitor numbers have been slow to recover...
The history of English Home old and new
ON Wednesday, November 26, 1947, the aesthete, conservationist and writer James, or ‘Jim’, Lees-Milne arrived in Yorkshire by train for a visit to Harewood House....
Painting a momentous year
WHEN it came to the life of the late Queen, two things mattered more than most: service and horses. Therefore, any attempt to capture her...