Two centuries after William Hogarth published his engravings of the decline and fall of Tom Rakewell, Rebecca West wrote a…
I follow the art historian Richard Morris on Twitter and his tweets are a daily delight - each one providing…
There was a period in the early 1960s when my parents had a television (in those days you rented) and…
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On the last day of the year, time to show an affirming flame as another low dishonest decade ends. I’ll…