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Who is taught real history anymore? I was never taught about the English Civil War at school despite studying history throughout. This gap in my knowledge about a foundational moment in British history has always felt like a thicket in the woods, through which I cannot truly see or understand where we are now. It [...]
My Life in the Arts is part of a series of interviews with leading figures in the art world. I hope to get an insight into what makes these people different, how they rose so high, their loves and passions and their mistakes and memories. The second in this series is with the legendary art dealer and [...]
How much will we travel in the future? I suspect that we will look back on the last few decades as the golden age of travel, when open borders and cheap flights made it easy to explore the world. But maybe this will mean that we travel with more purpose and with more care in [...]
This wonderful and rather playful Pre-Raphaelite picture has recently caught my eye. I had never seen it before this week, which is hardly surprising as for the last fifty years it has been in the private collection of Joe Setton and then his children, who are now selling his whole collection at Christie’s on the [...]
On the second floor of the Victoria & Albert Museum is a small room tucked away near the back staircase of that vast, incredible building. In the first few years after I started working in the European Sculpture department at Christie’s I would come to the museum most weekends in an attempt to learn the [...]
I was fortunate to speak to the artist Howard Morgan many times over the summer before his sad and untimely death in September. Following on from my previous blog post, which encompassed my interview, I wrote an obituary of Howard for The Telegraph, which I post below. For this I spoke to Howard's wife, Sarah [...]
Lives of the Artists is part of a series of interviews with artists. Based on Giorgio Vasari’s biographies of artists of the Renaissance, I hope to get an insight into what inspires these artists, what makes them different, their loves and passions and their mistakes and memories. The second in this series is with the painter Howard [...]
Lives of the Artists is part of a series of interviews with living artists. Based on Giorgio Vasari’s biographies of artists of the Renaissance, I hope to get an insight into what inspires these artists, what makes them different, their loves and passions and their mistakes and memories. The first in this series is with the sculptor [...]
My Life in the Arts is part of a series of interviews with leading figures in the art world. I hope to get an insight into what makes these people different, how they rose so high, their loves and passions and their mistakes and memories. The first in this series is with the museum director Sir Timothy Clifford.
The Hut is a little shack at the end of my parents valley, made of wood with a thatched roof. It is more than just a folly as inside there is a table that can seat eight for dinner and an open fire. It was designed by my father and built from scratch by my [...]
Milo Dickinson 