Museums
Melting pot
‘Celtic’ is a word heavily charged with meanings. It refers, among other phenomena, to a football club, a group of…
Glasgow
A wet walk in a Glaswegian graveyard might not be your idea of fun, but then you might not have…
Moving pictures
About six years ago the first section of the now celebrated High Line was opened in New York and made…
The Vatican
The sun has only just risen in Rome and we are standing bleary-eyed in a short queue outside the Vatican.…
Starry cast
The great municipal museums are products of the 19th-century imagination, evidence of lofty ambitions and cringe-making limitations. They are exact…
The Spectator’s Notes
At the impressive Westminster Abbey vigil to mark the centenary of the first world war on Monday night, there was…
Private passions
In the past ten years museums of modern and contemporary art have proliferated around the world. New institutions have appeared…
