Salvador Dalì
My soulmate Brian Sewell
Romy Somerset is the sweetest, nicest young girl in London. She’s also my goddaughter and I remember, during her christening…
Louise Levene meets the tormented queen of flamenco, who bewitched Dali & Peter Sellers
Louise Levene meets the great Gypsy dancer La Chana, who bewitched Dali and Peter Sellers
A great ad for the optical benefits of rehab: the Elton John Collection reviewed
‘Radical’ is like ‘creative’, a word that has been enfeebled to the point of meaninglessness. Everybody seems to want to…
The best art books of 2016
Suitably for a year so full of cataclysms and disturbing portents, 2016 is the quincentenary of the death of Hieronymus…
Piero della Francesca meets Dalí: Winifred Knights at Dulwich Picture Gallery reviewed
‘Hidden beauty is best (half seen), faces turned away.’ So noted a young English painter named Winifred Knights in 1924.…
Investing in jewellery can bring sparkling returns
Well-chosen jewellery can be highly rewarding
Exclamation marks, no; aertex shirts, yes!
Jonathan Meades, the architectural, food and cultural commentator, appears on television in a pair of retro shades and a trademark…
There was good art under Franco
Everyone knows about the Spanish civil war, first battlefield in the struggle that broke out in 1936 and ended nine…
Hysteria is a pile-up of unmotivated absurdities
Terry Johnson’s acclaimed farce Hysteria opens in Sigmund Freud’s Hampstead home in 1938. The godfather of psychobabble is ambushed by…