V&a
Dress to impress
People will go to extraordinary lengths to get into a nightclub. Nowadays you must wear something tight, and look slinky.…
A connoisseur’s eye
Alec Cobbe is a designer, painter, musician, picture restorer and collector, and has recently donated drawings, photographs and other archives…
Visions of the sublime
The V&A’s remarkable survey of Chinese painting begins quietly with a beautiful scroll depicting ‘Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk’,…
Smouldering addiction
My addiction to Chinese landscape painting began in 1965 at the V&A, in a travelling exhibition of the Crawford Collection…
Pearl appeal
‘Women spend more money on their ears in pearl earrings than on any other part of their person.’ So said…
Medieval indulgence
Think of an art at which the English have excelled and I doubt you would come up with the word…
