Man Alive, Hyde Park, the documentary filmmaker John Pitman’s dreamy 1971 chronicle of a day in the life of London’s largest green space, opens with a quintessentially British scene: goosepimpled ...

The Romans did have status symbols, just like we do. Portable sundials weren’t very useful or precise, but they said a lot ...

… At the end the painter asked me what I thought about it. I was not able to articulate any judgement… I only had the vague intuition that that pasty magma was sheltering the energy of a volcano about ...