Never hold a grudge. That’s what the wellness gurus will tell you. Holding grudges is self-destructive. It makes you bitter and resentful.

Let go of grudges and move on. Life is enjoyed by the person who does not carry the burden of past wrongs. Blah blah blah.

What we call ‘Modernism’ in the arts spans a wide variety of artists and types of art. In painting, modernism begins properly with artists like Van Gogh and Cezanne in the late 19th century and prevailed through to the neo-expressionist work of Schnabel, even Basquiat in the…

‘The Frankenstein complex’ is the term coined by 20th century American author and biochemistry professor Isaac Asimov in his famous robot novels series, to describe the feeling of fear we hold that our creations will turn on their creators — like the monster in Mary Shelley’s 1818…