Philip Johnson

The strange case of my first love and the stolen Stradivarius

8 July 2017 9:00 am

Because I’d been reading about Stradivarius on the bus home, my helpful iPhone suggested a related story: the Totenberg Ames…

True or false? The Temple of Bel, Palmyra, before and after its destruction at the hands of Islamic State

The great pretenders

28 May 2016 9:00 am

Can the beauty of Palmyra be reproduced by data-driven robots? Stephen Bayley on copies, fakes and forgeries