Anselm Kiefer

Walhalla

I hadn’t even heard of Anselm Kiefer until everyone started raving about his RAA retrospective in 2014, but walking through that exhibition felt like having my insides shredded with light. It dawned on me, still halfway round, what a strange phenomenon it must…

Club classics

I’ve been balls-deep in The Spectator this week. Not the Tory cuntrag that we have today, but the one that Richard Steele and Joseph Addison wrote (with others) between 1711 and 1712. It featured some of the first journalistic writings on theatre, poetry, aesthetics, manners and gossip, plus a tonne of…