History
A Trip Around The Art World: Life at Sotheby’s
A Trip Around The Art World – Life at Sotheby’s If I was going to work in London I would need to find somewhere to live. My father, when he came down from Cambridge, had […]
History
History
Guernica: the Basque town that defied its past
y two companions, Edorta Jiménez and Irati Agorria, show me a machine built for noise and it reduces me to silence. For this is one of the air-raid sirens that sounded 80 years ago, on […]
History
Did One Of Spain’s Greatest Artists Actually Have A Feminist Streak?
srael’s official relationship with Spain is only 30 years old, and is being celebrated with a remarkable exhibit of prints and paintings by the great Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746–1828), now on view at The […]
History
Spanish writer who fled civil war to a British village honoured in Madrid
Arturo Barea, loved for his books and BBC talks, has had a city square named after him in the Spanish capital near his former school In March 1939, a hungry and haunted Spanish refugee arrived […]
History
The ‘red’ scientist who was pardoned by Franco
Rafael Méndez, who was born in Lorca (Murcia) in 1906, once described himself as just another member of “the youth of the era: poorly trained and disinclined to study, a reflection of the country itself […]
History
The Ancient Art of Sabrage
The Art of Sabrage – Written by a Commander Sabreur (registered in France) and lover of great wines and champagnes Lynda Woodin. The noble art of Sabrage was an outlandish tactic first employed by Napoleon’s cavalry. […]
Art
A Trip Around The Art World: Sothebys to Wildensteins
One didn’t think about it at the time but this could have been the finest hour for the salerooms and the dealers. In those days the auction houses were basically a go-between for the public […]
Culture
The History of Design in Culture – The Greeks
The Greeks So to continue bounding along in time travel… The ancient Greeks were also with a lot of beautiful designs coming along as their culture expanded with thought, the arts, music, all culled and intermingled […]
Art
Serialization: A Trip Round The Art World
Lot one It was a Saturday afternoon in August and a young naval officer was standing outside John Tooke’s antique shop in Southwold, Suffolk, with him were his fiancée and her parents. Having mocked most […]