The Story in Paintings: Philemon and Baucis, virtue rewarded

An unusually moral story of the classical gods; superb paintings by Rubens, Rembrandt, Elsheimer, and others.

Palmyra, paintings, and cultural vandalism

Vasari praised Masaccio’s fresco, then six years later painted over parts of it, and put his altarpiece in front, obscuring it for nearly 300 years.

I went to close an enlarged view of a painting, and a Macintalk-like robot voice announced that my Mac was compromised.

Should we worry about claimed adverse effects of smartphones on book reading? And who suffers most if we close libraries?

The deadlines which the European Commission has set itself to fix the broken VAT system are all mañana and make-believe

Ask Google Translate to turn the Hungarian for “I am learning Hungarian” into French, and it tells you that I am learning English, in French.

This week’s crisis problem: are cat food pouches recyclable? Or does it even matter?

An explanation and apology for yesterday’s April foolery: and the paintings correctly attributed.

Spoof was originally a card game. But why April fools? A quick trip around trickery.

Thanks to painstaking work in the Mouton-Rothschild Collection, a new artist is being added to the canon of Impressionists.