The The Landmark Trust rescues extraordinary historic buildings across the country (and Italy). The team running this charity are so good that it can also lead the market in providing outstanding places to stay. Book early. landmarktrust.org.uk

I am delighted to be chairing this event with ever insightful Timandra Harkness on why technology is not the problem & why throwing your smartphone into the sea and running barefoot into the woods is not the answer to our troubles.

'Here is a figure of a man screaming in fear.' Amazing and interesting footage of Kenneth Clark and John Berger talking about Picasso's Guernica - Clarke doesn't think it could be a 'popular' painting, & they go on to discuss what could. Abt. 12 mins in: player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watc…

Carved Grooved Clam Shell (700-600 BC), Vulci, Italy.

A woman's face peeks out from this clam shell, and the waves on the shell's back are swirling like the woman's cloak blowing in the wind. The bark once held perfume or was used to mix makeup. The approximately 2,700-year-old…

Next Thursday, I will be taking part in a public 'conversation' about the Parthenon Marbles, hosted by the Pharos Foundation in Oxford. Other speakers are Lord Sumption, Nigel Spivey, tiffany jenkins Catharine Titi & Dr Mario Trabucco della Torretta, FRSA ACIM. Wish me luck! eventbrite.co.uk/e/pharos-conve…

The smart phone is not to blame for the 'epidemic' of anxiety in young people, by tiffany jenkins open.substack.com/pub/tiffanyjen…

The question of how to restore meaning to children’s lives and how to foster a more optimistic society requires more than scapegoating smartphones. My review of Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation. literaryreview.co.uk/the-smartphone…

It’s impossible to select a top four so here’s a random selection. The Holbein exhibition at the King’s Gallery is astounding and if you can get there before it closes you should try.

I am, quite literally, trembling with excitement at the latest frescoes to be uncovered at Pompeii. They're some of the finest I've seen. A wonderful piece in today's Times with helpful maps and Radio 4's bit this morning (on iPlayer) worth replaying thetimes.co.uk/article/pompei…

NP #43 'Wealth' features articles by Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine [email protected] Tom Chatfield tiffany jenkins Patrick Stokes Myisha Cherry André Dao, Mariana Alessandri; interviews with artists Cold War Steve dougie wallace; and interviews with philosophers Philippe Van Parijs & Samuel A. Chambers.

The fantastically strange and arresting ‘Dorette’ by Gerald Leslie Brockhurst c 1930 is one of the gems in the collection ⁦The Watt Institution⁩ in my hometown of Greenock and can be seen as part of a small show I’ve curated entitled Wonder ⁦. Open Wed - Sat. Do visit ..

1950s and '60s fashion was great. Photos from a new compilation of Garry Winogrand's photography, simply titled Color.

This is fab.

The question of how to restore meaning to children’s lives and how to foster a more optimistic society requires more than scapegoating smartphones. My review of Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation. literaryreview.co.uk/the-smartphone…

Are iPhones ruining children's lives? A prominent American psychologist thinks so.

tiffany jenkins is not so sure:

literaryreview.co.uk/the-smartphone…

We re-framed Rembrandt‘s A Woman taken in Adultery today, replacing a 19th century French 18th century style frame with a very fine, newly acquired Dutch 17th century ebony moulding; the light comes out of the painting in the black frame, it transforms the experience

Maurizio Pollini
5.1.1942-23.3.2024

“Don’t listen to your mother”, dad would whisper to me when she criticized Pollini for what she described as overly objective perfectionism. For dad, an architect and a composer, Pollini’s structural approach revealed new truths about even…

..the most familiar warhorses, made any piece of music an essential part of our time. With Pollini things were never simple - Chopin became the musical architect, Stockhausen the poet, Beethoven the philosopher.Many of us became better listeners and players. May he rest in peace.

If no high-brow publication has sent someone to Italy to write 10k words on all that the year-long restoration of the lost Botticelli hidden by a village baker entails, and how the work is going, they ought to. And I can write it

Any thrusting young art history students out there - preferably based in London - who want to do some research for a couple of my films? You’ll learn a lot and it will be a brilliant entry into TV. Paid position, of course.