René Redzepi's Noma, in Copenhagen, has just been voted the world's No.1 restaurant. Every month, 20,000 people try to make a reservation. For those who aren't lucky, René has ideas for where else to eat
Ah, Copenhagen. Where to start? I walk the streets everyday, I know every nook and every cranny. I've seen ...
Sir Christopher Lee will never forget his first, extraordinary, visit to St Peter's Basilica, Rome
I have been to St Peter's many times, but the first time was perhaps the most memorable. It was after the fall of Monte Cassino in 1944 and I was probably the first Allied officer since the beginning of the war to have ...
Charles Saumarez Smith considers the influence of Sir Anthony Caro during the golden age of British sculpture
Anthony Caro – or Tony as he was always known – was, like many of his generation, a reluctant Royal Academician. He came to the institution late and never wholly embraced it.
It is not generally remembered that Caro trained as a sculptor, against the ...
Giorgio de Chirico mourned the modern world, says Jonathan Jones, by treating it like a classical ruin
Two lovers are saying goodbye. The man insists he will soon return, but his wife knows it is a lie. He is doomed to die in battle, to be dragged through the dust behind the victor's chariot. Such is the parting of ...
Evelyn Waugh drank his way through his time at Oxford, but he also found the inspiration for his most famous book, Brideshead Revisited. Alexander Waugh writes about Waugh's louche life with the Hypocrite Club
Evelyn Waugh's years spent as an undergraduate at Oxford in the 1920s have been characterized as a time devoid of academic effort and filled ...
As the Soviets sold off their art treasures, one American ambassador began collecting. It provided solace during a grim posting.Vanora Bennett opens the diplomatic bag
Art was perhaps the only consolation for Laurence Steinhardt during his difficult posting to Moscow. By profession a successful New York lawyer, Steinhardt was American Ambassador from 1939 to 1941, a political appointee who ...
Hilary Weston, former Governor of Ontario and owner of Selfridge's has created a gallery in her Florida retreat. What's more, she asked London's Whitechapel Gallery to curate the shows. She tells Lucinda Bredin why art matters
For the past three years, The Whitechapel Gallery in London's so-called gritty East End has organized a series of exhibitions ...
The Caren Archive is one of the great private collections of newspapers and manuscripts. Bonhams is offering some of its treasures. Harold Evans, the greatest newspaperman of his era, delves through the history of news
News is never over. Every event has a prolog, a happening, and a sequel, the sediment of history waiting to be stirred again. We have ...
Three Australian artists discovered a book about linocuts which changed their lives. They took off for England in search of the author. Matthew Sturgis tells their story
Australia, during the early decades of the 20th century, could feel a long way away. A long way away, that is, from the cultural centers of Britain and Continental Europe. As one English ...
Architect Giles Newby Vincent is selling the contents of his house. He takes Lucinda Bredin on a tour of the collection
You might well be familiar with the work of Giles Newby Vincent. For among the many historic houses he has decorated, a Georgian rectory in Oxfordshire is now famous as it features in the television series Downton Abbey as ...
Burgundy's 2012 grand crus are commanding high prices, says Jasper Morris. Older vintages on the other hand...
Burgundy lovers have been thrilled with the recent release of the 2012 vintage: a tiny crop, alas, but some beautiful wines, especially the sought-after reds of the Côte de Nuits. The only snag is the price. Not only has supply been impaired ...
Don't believe its dull reputation. From old masters to flea markets, there is much pleasure to be found in Brussels, says Robert Cottrell
A word of warning. Brussels has the weather that London is supposed to have, and a day without rain is a rare treat in any season. Advice on what to do in case of sunshine will ...
The Assyrians were quick to recognize the power of propaganda. They exploited it with monuments built to last. Gwendolyn Leick looks on in awe
Foreign delegates waiting for a royal audience with the Assyrian king, Adad-nerari III, found themselves staring at wall after wall of carved reliefs depicting the relentless progress of the mighty Assyrian army. The intention was that ...
Matthew Haley, Head of the Book Department, tells Lucinda Bredin why his career is going according to the script
One never knows what you are going to find, read – or indeed hear – in the Book Department. Felix Pryor, the manuscript expert, is reading aloud in a sonorous voice, "...there is no doubt about the club whose spirit you represent. I ...