I’m not an economist, just a columnist. My guess is you’re neither — nor are you Henry Potter, Ebenezer Scrooge, or the Grinch Who Stole Christmas. That means you have, like me, a holiday gift list.
Colour, the painter Patrick Heron once proclaimed, is a continent that artists have yet to explore. The mammoth two-volume The Book of Colour Concepts (Taschen, £150) catalogues numerous attempts ...
There have been many fruitful collaborations in the history of art; some have yielded masterpieces, others have given rise to entire movements. The Renaissance, the apogee of artistic accomplishment, ...