calligraphy
The art of the arabesque
The title of this book, By the Pen and What They Write, is a quotation from the Qur’an and comes…
The art of protest
Titles can be misleading, and in case you have visions of microwave ovens running amok or washing machines crunching up…
Smouldering addiction
My addiction to Chinese landscape painting began in 1965 at the V&A, in a travelling exhibition of the Crawford Collection…