Dale Chihuly is styled as the “world’s most celebrated glass artist”. I have no idea how stiff the competition is for that accolade ...
Read MoreThis is old news but quite an extraordinary story anyway. Last November, this painting – Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) – s...
Read MoreFUN: A price that’s in at the steep end
It’s not an especially topical subject at the moment, what with the Edinburgh Festival being long gone for another year, but over the past year ...
Read MoreFUN: Standing up to be counted
This is a little story about The Holme, an opulent premises in a sensational location on the Inner Circle of Regent’s Park, London NW1. This ho...
Read MoreFUN: The Holme is far from being a home from home
Sir David Attenborough has described the Temperate House at Kew Gardens as “a breathtakingly beautiful space”. Who am I to argue with that...
Read MoreFUN: Planting seeds for the future
When I was involved in magazine publishing, there were certain words on a magazine cover that it was generally accepted would make your product more...
Read MoreFUN: A weighty matter for some animal magic (+ Kim Kardashian!)
Is cave exploring really fun? Many people do like it, indeed love it, and in some respects I should, but all considered I prefer my underground experi...
Read MoreFUN: Flunking the spelunking…except in Mallorca
A visit to the Centro Botin in Santander, itself a gloriously located small city (population about 170,000) in Cantabria on Spain’s northern Atl...
Read MoreFUN: A new cultural treasure for Cantabria
Last month I went to see the fabulous Pink Floyd exhibition, Their Mortal Remains, at the Victoria & Albert Museum in South Kensington. Entering t...
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