Renaissance Utterances

Klapa singers on Vis 2016 One of my first experiences of klapa music during my stay in Split was wandering around the city late one cold...

'Thou art a whore and an arrant whore' Gossip, whispers, muttering, celebrity tittle tattle...no matter what the century, the ...

I don't usually write about music because I find it extraordinarily difficult to articulate, unless in poetry. When I have talked about...

Art? Furniture? Protected? There is no doubt that 3D printing will become ubiquitous as the technology improves and associated costs com...

The things I do in the pursuit of the new. This weekend saw me watching Strictly Come Dancing for the first time; a mostly enjoyable exper...

My thought soars not so high ; though duly bent In reverence, and awe, and long attent, To study Nature and the works and ways, So wondrous,...

It turns out that few art historians make excursions into music history , mainly because music can be rather technical. I am the first to ...

Although the intellectual life of the artist is crucial, my focus this weekend has been on the patron and his concerns. I'm coming rou...

Now I am ready to to tell how bodies are changed i nto different bodies So starts Ted Hughes's translation of the Metamorphoses. This...