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( Japan Times )   "Created by Paul McCarthy, an American artist, as part of his exhibition Chocolate Factory, the installation ...

According to the Loeb Classical Library translation, the root of the name "Odysseus" is "man of pain". Athene, remonstra...

 A blood-feud in Iceland, a thousand years ago: Halldor and others have just killed Bolli in his dairy, while his wife Gudrun is out......

Jeremy Clarke is the Low Life columnist for the Spectator magazine. He lives in Devon's South Hams and mixes humbly (a word he's fo...

Commenting on the latest twist in the Lawson-Saatchi feud, John Ward says : "For me, Nigella had always represented a figure of fun: ...

Source: Wiki (see terms of use) You can always get me along to an exhibition of an artist with a clear world-view, even if it's not ...

This, by Jonathan Franzen in Saturday week's Grauniad review , is the best essay I have read for several months.  Based on his translat...

What is the point of " rational self-interest "? Everything you do for yourself is lost when you die. Perhaps it's an observ...

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http://arthistory.about.com/od/from_exhibitions/ig/arcimboldo_paris/gaml1007_15.htm If you haven't read Carl Hiaasen (and he's...

Until not so many years ago, I naively took the view that fiction was made up and non-fiction was true. I now realize that much fiction is d...

Richard Dadd: Caravan Halted By The Sea Shore (1843)  Pounding up the packed M5 yesterday, I noticed that caravans are like a red r...