Aquarium of Vulcan

                                Bronzino's masterpiece Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time  is archetypal in its subject-matter and style ...

Recently, while browsing in a charity shop, I found a small brass square with numbers inscribed upon it. After purchasing it and taking ...

First performed in its current production in Leeds, December 2011, and now on tour throughout the UK this October and November, Norther...

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...