How a brutally tortured 3rd-Century saint became a gay icon
Because Sebastian’s gay icon status is so layered and deep-rooted, it has also proved malleable. At the height of the HIV/Aids epidemic in the 1980s
Five details that unlock the genius of Van Gogh’s original ‘starry night’
Van Gogh has studiously swapped in these windows and drawn curtains for a pair of formidable, 1st-Century Corinthian columns, complete with intricate capitals and cornice,
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The earl who vanished after murdering his children’s nanny
It also reveals much about the British attitude to class. Richard John Bingham, the seventh Earl of Lucan, married Veronica, a former model and secretary,
Why David Hockney’s 1967 masterpiece is newly poignant after his death
Though A Bigger Splash appears, on its surface, to be a meticulously observed moment in time, it was, in fact, a fusion of personal and
Steven Spielberg’s ‘flimsy’ alien drama is like ‘a drab X-Files episode’
Josh O’Connor stars as Daniel, a cyber-security boffin who works for a powerful organisation called Wardex. The organisation was set up to keep information about
The groundbreaking audio series that explored world history through objects
At 09:45 on January 18, 2010, the first episode of this ambitious series began on BBC Radio 4, presented by Neil MacGregor, an art historian
Why Close Encounters has never been more relevant
Steven Spielberg’s 1977 classic tapped into ever-present anxieties about UFOs Source link
The weatherman crucial to D-Day victory
On his inauguration day, in 1961, John F Kennedy asked the outgoing president, Dwight D Eisenhower, what had given him the advantage over the Nazis
The new biopic revealing the secrets of enigmatic supermodel Kate Moss
“I pondered what two cultural titans may have talked about,” he explains of what drew him to the premise,”and what they found so intriguing and