Art galleries: the last refuge of the cultural window-shopper
While bookstores and record shops close their doors, squeezed out by the online competition, the gallery still offers something the internet can’t: real-life art
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Why it’s good to laugh at climate change
Climate gags are notable by their absence, but an RSA event on Tuesday night hopes to show that climate change comedy can raise laughs and awareness
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?
Women chefs can handle the heat in the kitchen but have no appetite for sexism
Blaming a lack of female chefs on archaic assumptions about their capabilities is as weak as perpetuating the excuses that allow certain chefs to behave so badly
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’
Unthinkable? Take no photographs in art galleries
Galleries should be for looking at the art not for having your picture taken in front of it