Author: jaywp

The common tendency for historians in the nineteenth century has been to marginalise those ethnic ‘nations’ such as the Picts, the Carthaginians and the Etruscans largely because there is little trace linguistically of these remarkable groups. The Etruscans are a…

This year six Building Projects by British architects have been nominated out of the many submissions. More notably, four of these are for building projects abroad. This has rightly caused a surge of criticism of the conservative attitudes that architects…

Six new works will be launched by Sir Anthony Caro this autumn, not this time at Venice where the Gondoliers once parodied his work outside Harry’s Bar (some years back it must be said). Five of these are typically large,…

Jake and Dinos Chapman have pulled it off again, in the forecourt of the Royal Academy (too large to go inside). Their mega-sculpture, dwarfing most Henry Moores even, is entitled ‘The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth, but not the Mineral…

There is so much to thank Google for (here speaks an editor and a thousand contributors), but they have succumbed (perhaps temporarily) to a common US condition of denial about the effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. Recently the…

So the great Swedish film director and theatre producer Ingmar Bergman has at last died, aged 89, on his island off the coast of Sweden. Earlier this summer he was still talking in interview of a last film, on the…