20 FEBRUARY 1993, page 30

Catholics After Dark

Sir: I am currently at the start of a study of the Gunpowder Plot, that still controversial episode in which Catholic conspirators did (or did not) plan to blow up the House of......

Household Heritage

Sir: Your leading article (`Lands of inheri- tance', 13 February) on the leasehold enfranchisement measures in the Housing and Urban Development Bill, which received a......

Sir: Last Week, As I Was Ascending A Remote Alpine

ski-lift, I read with enormous plea- sure Giles Auty's excellent article. Giles Auty expresses the views of an enormous 'silent majority' on modern art over the last 30 years. I......

Letters Art Wars

Sir: The response (Letters, 13 February) of the director of the Tate Gallery, Nicholas Serota, to my article 'A new age for art' (23 January) is either uninformed or disingenu-......

Sir: The Interesting Articles By Giles Auty On Modern Art

reminded me of a report in the German investor's magazine Effecten- spiegel of 22 December 1988 of a startling speech by Picasso in Madrid on 2 May 1952. I have translated it......