He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work

For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”

Postmodernity perches precariously in the porter’s lodge

The overall tone is rather bloodless, smug and muted where one might hope for exhilaration

Londoners are sentimental about the early-twentieth-century Tottenham Court Road store, Heal’s

Britain’s oldest purpose-built synagogue faces a new, more insidious threat

The amazing discovery of a thousand Orvieto pots in a water shaft

In our brave new world of modern art, there’s a growing appetite for celebrating the mystery of the natural world

London’s buried treasure is getting a fresh polish

In an age when figurative art had fallen out of fashion, Watson fixed his gazed unerringly on the mystery of life as it is