Archive - Everything the artworld doesn't want you to know

Apr 22 •

Consigned to the Flames

Apr 18 •

Blow Back Ins in Broken Hill

Things move at a different pace in the country.

Apr 17 •

The Count of Monte Cristo

A classic is a book that never becomes outdated, capturing one generation of readers after another, although often in quite different ways.

Apr 14 •

Prisoner's Dilemma

Apr 11 •

Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature

It happened to Rembrandt, and it happened to Caspar David Friedrich.

Apr 9 •

Small Things Like These

Having written a surprise best-seller in The Fatal Shore, Robert Hughes wondered what to write next.

Apr 8 •

The Vision Thing

Apr 4 •

Cavafy Museum, Alexandria

At the dawn of the Common Era, the Egyptian city of Alexandria boasted the greatest library of the ancient world.

Apr 4 •

Hong Kong 2025: A Journal

Last week in Hong Kong, I visited young, up-and-coming gallery, PHD Group – at 11.30 at night.

Apr 4 •

Ralph Fiennes, who does a nice line in ‘troubled and brooding’, makes lavish use of this skill in The Return, a story drawn from one of the foundational…

Apr 1 •

March 2025

Spacejunk in the Garden

Mar 29 •

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