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To prepare my article for The Guardian on whether the UK is prepared for a Covid winter, I spoke to many experts who gave a great deal of ...

The images of people in Italian cities singing to one another from their balconies during the lockdowns to cope with the Covid-19 pandemi...

Jan van Huysum’s Flowers in a Terracotta Vase (1736) is a riot of floral colour, the equal of anything else by the Dutch flower painters of...

This is the second of theree essays on colour commissioned for the catalogue of a now-cancelled exhibition on colour at the Musée d’Orsay in...

This is the first of three essays on colours that were to be included in the catalogue for an exhibition at the Musé d'Orsay in Paris th...

This is my latest column for the Italian science magazine Sapere . ________________________________________________________________ ...

The mostly rather splendid adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula just screened by the BBC prompts me to post here this short edited extract ...