The "Alternative Guide to the Universe" claims to offer bracingly fresh perspectives. In fact it gives us the opposite, and is all the more interesting for it.

Music is integral to the National Gallery’s Vermeer show, perfectly representing the arc of life itself

Marxist art historians cherish his Cubism, but he later became a true artist, not just a modernist

In 1945, Bernard Hailstone painted my father, the journalist Louis Heren, in the Burmese jungle. This is the story of their long friendship