We’ve all grown up with the stories of Troy – the beauty of Helen, her relationships, and the successful attack by the Greeks using the device of the famous Trojan horse, while Homer’s stories tell us of the battles between the gods and the long journeys of the Greek heroes. Were these romantic myths or […]
The grounds of Charles Barry’s great house at Cliveden, built in 1851-2 for the 2nd Duke of Sutherland and most famous as the home of Nancy Astor, with her famous dinner parties that everyone who was anyone attended, and who was the first woman MP to take a seat in the House of Parliament a […]
Twisting, curving, sculptural abstractions made from steel. If you look through the rooflights of the 4th floor gallery of the Annely Juda Fine Art Gallery in Mayfair, you can make out the silhouette of the crane which lifts art from the street below and drops it (carefully) into the gallery below; they definitely needed it […]
One of Fernardo Botero’s curvaceous women welcomes visitors to the classical Georgian building which is of course an illusion – a temporary façade erected every year in the grounds of the Royal Hospital in Chelsea for the annual art and antique fair Masterpiece. If there is a colour that subtlety predominates here it is red: […]
Scattered on the grassy lawns adjacent to the formal garden and fountains of Regent’s Park, with the backcloth of John Nash’s elegant regency terraces, a successful initiative of Frieze this summer was the sculpture park where a wide range of strange and wonderful sculpture was on display through the summer by artists including Eduardo Paolozzi, […]
A solitary door stands half-open in its frame in the church gardens of St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate, perhaps hinting of another spiritual world that could be found by the City workers or Polish builders sitting in the gardens if they were brave enough to push it open and enter through it. The opening door also announces the […]
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