Newell Harbin – ‘When I tried to put something in front of him a few months later, I was so new to the job but I should have known better,’ says Hannah Starkey A few years ago Newell Harbin was at Elton John’s house; Windsor was at home in Atlanta, as opposed to those in… Read More »
In February 2015, a pair of massive stars, one made of polished aluminum and the other of unpolished teak, appeared in the courtyard of the Royal Academy in London. These belonged to Frank Stella, an American artist and scholar emeritus who has died aged 87. For all their differences, the two stars were literally part… Read More »
The news that an 11-year-old girl named Ruby Reynolds has found an important fossil proves that anyone willing to get out there and look can make historic discoveries. The fossilized bone found on the Somerset coast in 2020 was recently identified by palaeontologist Dean Lomax of the University of Manchester as coming from a species… Read More »
“It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.” Is there a sentence more annoying than this? This is always said by people with an annoying lack of personal freedom. For example, you rarely hear this from people whose lives consist solely of commuting to and from kids’ schools, clubs, and swimming lessons. During peak hours. Our… Read More »
American artist Frank Stella, who has died aged 87, was at the forefront of abstract art for more than half a century; From the moment he entered the New York art scene at the age of 23, his work began to be seen as a harbinger of future developments. Stella began her career in the… Read More »
Tawny, Staffordshire On the edge of Consall Nature Park, a nature reserve containing 740 acres of woodland, heathland and moorland, sits The Tawny, a “deconstructed hotel”. This means that instead of a single roomed house, there is a collection of boathouses, cabins, and treehouses scattered across woodlands and lakes. At the top of the hill… Read More »
Located at the mouth of the Dart estuary, the sleepy fishing town of Dartmouth is the perfect place to spend a lazy summer week. Rolling hills, chocolate box fishing villages and endless sunshine have made it an established tourist destination. Less well known is its food paradise status. With a growing number of vineyards (yes,… Read More »
Torsa is one of the Slate Islands in the Inner Hebrides (Savills). Private islands may seem like A-list reserves (think Branson’s Necker Island, George and Amal Clooney’s island in the Thames, or Beyoncé’s tropical paradise in the Florida Keys). But you can also own a private island for a much more modest price. Torsa, a… Read More »
For the Japanese poet Basho, Mount Fuji was a unique muse. He returned here many times throughout his life and described “hundreds of views through clouds and mist” of the volcano. Seventeenth-century writers would perhaps have been alarmed to hear that there was now one less point of view. This week, authorities in the small… Read More »
There is something in the water; E.coli to be exact. Questions have been raised about how safe it will be for triathletes and open water swimmers participating in the 2024 Olympic Games after high levels of bacteria were found in the River Seine. Meanwhile, just before the Oxford and Cambridge regatta in March, both teams… Read More »