The Tumbrel Diaries

On my frequent visits to London I have established an unshakable ritual of paying at least one restorative visit to the Sir Josep...

Not wishing for a moment in any way to diminish the fine work of the Sir Joseph Hotung Centre for Ceramic Studies at the British Museum—be...

Upon much reflection it seems to me that among the hardest aesthetic qualities to describe in words are the instinctive judgment of shape,...

As usual the British Museum blows its competitors—if that is the right word—out of the water. Because just now in Bloomsbury you can see a...

Bad curatorial habits seem to thrive in clusters. In almost every art museum I visited in London last week, on wall labels and in publishe...