Imagine an art collector. You may conjure an image of some big, boastful banker or brash oligarch, yet such clichés are mere footnotes to a far more penetrating story. The acquirer can take a role…
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Visual art: Painters’ Paintings at the National Gallery, WC2
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A house with the Nash factor
The founder of Agent Provocateur is selling her Regent’s Park townhouse
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Athens of the north under siege from ‘architectural philistines’
The elegant half-moon hall of St Andrew’s and St George’s West is no stranger to controversy. The Edinburgh church was the wellspring of 1843 Disruption, when the Rev Dr David Welsh read out his theological…
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Controversial Oxford building may be crowned best of year
When the University of Oxford opened their new £75 million school of government in May, there was a demonstration outside.