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Born in Frankfurt in 1647, Maria Sibylla Merian was, from a very early age, fascinated by insects and, in particular, the process by which butterflies and moths made a complete transformation from an egg to a beautiful flying creature. Praised by David Attenborough as being among the most significant contributors to the field of entomology, […]
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Profumo Affair, when the War Minister slept with a good-time girl called Christine Keeler while she was, allegedly, also bedding the Assistant Soviet Naval Attaché. Coming in the wake of the Cuban missile crisis and the continuing threat of nuclear annihilation posed by the Cold War, a […]
Ladybird Books, those wonderful, pocket-sized publications which – for those of a certain age – offered the reader the basics of every subject from magic tricks to King Arthur, celebrate their centenary in 2015. To mark the occasion, London’s House of Illustration is holding an exhibition about the history of the series with many original […]
Simon Schama, Professor of Art and History at Columbia University, has been working with the National Portrait Gallery’s Chief Curator, Dr. Tarnya Cooper, to create five new displays for the gallery which reflect his personal view of British portraiture through the ages. Explaining that his motivation came from Rembrandt and British history itself, he said […]
Road signs are so commonplace that we never think about them yet without a clear system of signage our roads would be chaotic and the risk of accident and injury would be much higher. This year marks the 50th anniversary of their current design on British roads and they were devised by Jock Kinneir and […]
Every year around this time the media is full of astonishing pictures of wildlife. The reason is the Wildlife Photographer of the Year, a competition owned and administered by London’s Natural History Museum. This year is the 51st time it has been held and its prestige and scope attracted more than 42,000 entries from around […]
The Daydreaming With… series attempts to marry contemporary art, music, film and photography, amongst other disciplines, in one portmanteau show around a defined theme. Its latest incarnation is in London’s Somerset House and features exhibits from different artists, filmmakers and designers based on the life and work of Stanley Kubrick, the brilliant director of ground-breaking […]
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Sony World Photography Awards and the standard, as ever, is very high although there is also a slight sense among the judges of, if not compassion fatigue, then a weariness with having to view so many photos of war, crime and political upheaval, and the subsequent toll […]
Erté – born Roman Petrovich Tyrtov in St. Petersburg in 1892 – was an artist and designer who applied himself across a range of disciplines from Parisian fashions to stage and film set designs and magazine illustration. He is now being celebrated in a selling exhibition at London’s Grosvenor Gallery, marking the 125th anniversary of […]