Aquarium of Vulcan

Saturnine blues, this time in the form of an early work by the German artist George Grosz's  The Lovesick Man (circa 1916),  a p...

Earlier this year I was introduced, courtesy of a friend,  to the music of Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960). The music of Golijov, who was bo...

There are a surprising number of hitherto undetected connections between the German mathematician, astronomer, and astrolo...

The summer of 2012 in England has been a bit of a wash-out, not just the wettest ever April to June since records began in 1910,  but ...

The seductive figure of the mermaid has a fascinating place in world art and literature.  An early western literary account of the ...