I never did write a post here about Madrid’s Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, which I finally got to visit for one entire glorious day back in...

Filled with delight that Kazuo Ishiguro has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Nobody could have deserved it more. But I suppose I’m...

Philosopher and critic Roger Scruton, on the shocking possibility that much of the highest-profile, highest-cost modern art is the...

Famously: It struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so...

A great talent. RIP. In 1996, I had the opportunity to interview him at his home in Manhattan. Along with my introduction, this is what...

Such riches, all in half a dozen rooms. These, with apologies for my cell phone, are a few top picks. A famous masterpiece by Dürer,...

Today, June 16th 2016, is the 200th anniversary of the stormy night in Geneva when Byron told his houseguests they should all try their...

Dean Swift’s take on the problem is from On Poetry: A Rhapsody, 1733: Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline; Be...

Today I visited New York’s Metropolitan Museum for the first time in six years. Like drowning in cream. I spend almost two hours in the...