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Politics Of Patronage

John Spurling China: The Three Emperors 1662–1795 Royal Academy, London, until 17 April 2006 ‘T he state is ruined, but mountains and rivers remain,’ wrote the Chinese poet Du......

Regency Revival?

Alan Powers W .S. Gilbert’s parody of Oscar Wilde, Reginald Bunthorne, wanted to make a minor scandal with his belief that ‘art stopped short in the cultivated court of the......