Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.

The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every Sunday hereafter.

There's no Peter York Foundation, and you're no one without one.

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for people when they are under pressure. The English tradition is to get a grip, whereas the American version is to get in touch with your feelings, to say: 'I'm a good person. Isn't it terrible when bad things happen to people like me?'