‘It began in a woman’s club in London on a February afternoon – an uncomfortable club, and a miserable afternoon – when Mrs Wilkins, who had come from from Hampstead to shop and had lunched at her club, took up The Times from the table in the smoking room, and

Happy Valentine’s Day! Whether you’re celebrating loved ones, or gnashing your teeth about smug couples and surge price chocolates,  New York’s Metropolitan Museum has art to match. Here’s a sampling. Of Love Mars and Venus United by Love. Paolo Veronese. 1570s . The Power of Love in the Three Elements. 1809 . Young

‘Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with empty sockets.’ So wrote Italian Renaissance painter Raphael, born 1483 in Urbino. Time was not kind to Raphael. His mother died when he was nine; his

2020 brings the opportunity to see almost one hundred Old Master and 19th Century works by sixty artists – artists like Sandro Botticelli, Rembrandt, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Leonardo da Vinci. The Princely Collections, Liechtenstein: Five Centuries of European Painting and Sculpture exhibit brings together works collected by

‘Don Juan. I was sitting in the dark in my castle when a stranger entered. I asked who he could be again and again — but there was no answer. I tried to make him laugh but he remained silent. At last the stranger began to sing — then Don

What’s not to like about a town known for its homemade lemon ice cream, freshly squeezed orange juice, Art Nouveau landmarks, artisan jewellery, leather, ceramics, and a 100+ year old wooden train that pulls up into a station bedecked with artwork from Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso? Board the train

i. I (Kate Wood) work in clay now, mainly as a potter but I occasionally go back to painting and drawing. ii. On a ‘typical’ day, you’ll find me: I  have learnt I do best when I split my day into segments. I used to beat myself up for not being able to

‘As in Rome there is,’ Goethe wrote in his Prose Maxims, ‘apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.’ . .    

“When you step into the Basilica, you’re really touched by its splendour, its soaring architecture,” says Tarik Mikou. Mikou, Creative Director of Moment Factory – a Montréal-based studio that creates immersive, multi-media experiences – describes his initial impressions of the stunning Notre-Dame de Montréal, whose exterior was designed by architect,

What it must be like to live a day to day life in Rome. Need to get cheese – ho hum, there’s the Coliseum. High sprint to work – wretched Pantheon crowds. Our visitor eyes scan like dragonflies, afraid of turning the wrong way at the wrong time. Rome, we