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4 May 2021 Last week I wrote about what digitalisation may be doing to creativity.  This week, a look at what it may already have done to the way that we ‘consume’ creative culture. An opening vignette  Something very traditional happened on British television last weekend. Just short of thirteen million people – one fifth of the population – tuned their TVs at the same time to watch the final episode of a BBC crime serial called Line of Duty. That’s the biggest TV audience for any TV drama in thirteen years. What’s more this series – set in the murk of corruption and anti-...

Galerie Nathalie Obadia opens its fifth exhibition with Sophie Kuijken Sophie Kuijken, Z.V., 2021. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 90 x 160 x 4,5 cm. © Sophie Kuijken. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia Paris / Brussels. PARIS .-Galerie Nathalie Obadia is presenting Belgian artist Sophie Kuijken’s fifth exhibition, following her 2020 show in Brussels. Shielded from the limelight for nearly 20 years, then unveiled for the first time in 2011 at the Dhondt-Dhaenens Museum, under the encouragement of its director Joost Declerq, Sophie Kuijken’s pictorial oeuvre is a highly singular ...

Apollo. The exhibition, currently closed due to Covid-19 restrictions, is scheduled to run until 6 June.  In the aftermath of the Second World War, a split emerged between European architects about how the reconstruction of cities might best be realised: several northern European architects, among them the Dutchman Aldo van Eyck, advocated for building that took into account human patterns of association within new and specifically designed forms; the other attitude, represented by an Italian, Ernesto Rogers, called for understanding of the significance of the historical centre, and for arch...

The best times to come are during April’s National Cherry Blossom Festival and the more temperate months (May, June & Sept). The nation’s capital puts on quite a display for its guests, and, best of all, admission to all major attractions on the National Mall is always free; the most famous sites include the White House, memorials to four of the greatest presidents and the superb museums of the Smithsonian Institution. Between the Mall and the main spine of Pennsylvania Avenue – the route that connects Capitol Hill to the White House – the Neoclassical buildings of the Federal Triangl...

Country Life Trending: February 15, 2021 St Jerome in His Study, about 1475, 18in by 14in, by Antonello da Messina (about 1430–79), National Gallery, London. Credit: Alamy Tim Sainsbury on St Jerome in His Study by Antonello da Messina ‘Antonello da Messina is often credited with introducing painting in oils to Italy and was a pioneer in the use of linear perspective. But it is the exquisite detail evident in every part of the painting that, for me, makes this work so special. You can study it for hours and still spot something new. ‘St Jerome is generally regarded as t...