Unbearable lightness of Baroque
As the founder and director of the Valletta Baroque Festival I frequently get asked the question ‘what is baroque?’
In Search of Lost Beauty
In this utilitarian age we live in, beauty – I find – becomes more and more elusive, and I perso...
Kitsch or Cool
When does art become kitsch and when does kitsch become art?...
Between Scylla and Charybdis
Confessions of a frustrated Artist and Artistic Director ...
Public Sculpture
Should They Stay or Should They Go?...
A Love-Affair with Porcelain
“No self-respecting palace can call itself a palace without a grandiose piece of Chinese porcelain...
The Infernally Mystical World of William Blake
A Biblical journey through William Blake’s world at Tate Britain...
Public Sculpture
I am at a complete loss to understand why, as a race, we are so hypocritically prudish...