Champagne is all a matter of taste – but the taste doesn’t really matter

Experts are saying that upmarket champagne tastes better out of a normal wine glass than out of a flute – is this the new shape of alpha snobbery?

When did ‘aspiration’ become a dirty word? When they sprayed it gold…

Two encounters on the streets of London: the gold Ferrari said: ‘I have more money than you.’ The begging mother said: ‘I have none’

Jake Chapman is being a snob. Taking children to art galleries is vital

The artist claims children ‘are not human yet’ and thus can’t understand art. But art teaches us what it means to be human

Stop flogging statues, and give museums a slice of the art market pie

An Egyptian statue from Northampton museum has been sold for £16m. There has to be a better solution to the funding crisis