Review of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Duchess Theatre
The timing couldn’t be more perfect for this Chichester Festival production directed by Jonathan Church to wow London. Brecht isn’t…
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Television-hating Roald Dahl would turn in his grave at iPad proliferation
Author: Alessandro Tome ‘The amount of unnecessary tension and arguments inspired by iPads is mind-boggling. And by the time you…
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Most expensive book ever sold at auction fetches $14 million
NEW YORK, 26 November 2013 – Tonight at Sotheby’s New York, one of only eleven surviving copies of the Bay…
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Book review of Freaks of Fortune by Jonathan Levy
Levy, Jonathan Freaks of Fortune, The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America Jonathan Levy Harvard University Press EX…
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Book review of The Love-Charm of Bombs by Lara Feigel
The Love-charm of Bombs, Restless Lives in the Second World WarLara FeigelBloomsbury EX LIBRIS Mark Le Fanu on the wartime…
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David Ross’s exhibition covers art from Pop to Brit
Previously unseen and important British country house art collections do not often travel en masse. Maybe the odd picture is…
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David Ross's exhibition covers art from Pop to Brit
‘Pop Art to Britart: Modern Masters from the David Ross Collection’ features Bridget Riley’s dynamic visual waves and the emotionally…
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Review of Beyond Extravagance
Beyond Extravagance is about right. The title of a lavish new book cataloguing and depicting the jewellery collection of a…
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Boris Johnson’s Latin school scheme shows there’s life in the old language yet
Latin is a little like Marmite – people either love or hate it. Being of the former category, I was…
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Up to 1,000 children from some of London’s most deprived areas are expected to get a taste of the language…
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Questions for Eugenio Re Rebaudengo about online art site Artuner
As Spear’s has covered in detail before (see here for example), art has gone digital, whether it’s work that only…
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Sale of most expensive painting ever met with art world cynicism
Smashing the world record for a work of art sold at auction, Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud fetched…
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Cookbook Review of Tom Kerridge’s Proper Pub Food and the Ginger Pig Farmhouse Cookbook by Tim Wilson and Fran Warde
We haven’t looked at any books of late on Food Friday, but seeing as two beauties have recently landed on…
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Cookbook Review of Tom Kerridge's Proper Pub Food and the Ginger Pig Farmhouse Cookbook by Tim Wilson and Fran Warde
Emily Rookwood makes a foray into her cookbook collection, becomes nostalgic about her countryside childhood and gets rather excited about…
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Is Christianity at odds with wealth?
Devotion to the Christian faith and a life of opulence and luxury don’t appear to be a perfect pairing. Indeed…
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10 most valuable paintings
Author: Peter Matthews Over time, the obsession to own these colourful masterpieces has resulted in them having price tags so…
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The egos and arguments behind A Small World’s purge of members, and the rival group getting its own back
In April 2013, A Small World, the self-styled elite social network (or ‘global community’), decided it was going to be…
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The egos and arguments behind A Small World's purge of members, and the rival group getting its own back
After exclusive social network A Small World began a purge of its members, Melinda Hughes talks to some of those…
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Colombia's millionaire population hits a high
Colombia has bounced back from the financial crisis better than the rest of the world as its number of millionaires…
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Why fine-art collecting is not dissimilar to compulsive hoardin
I REMEMBER ONE of the first times I saw my mother cry. It was over a set of 200-year-old Chinese…
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