If truth is not to be found on the shelves of the British Museum, where, I asked myself, picking up a notebook and a pencil, is truth? Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own When the British Museum first opened its doors to the public on 15 January 1759, it was housed in a seventeenth-century …
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. Thomas Merton, No Man is an Island There is something of the Michelangelo in this man. Balzac on Daumier A new short film is imminent, to mark the 255th anniversary of the British Museum which opened to the public on 15 January …
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment. Thomas Carlyle Part One of a New Year’s reflection: Part Two coming soon … A very happy New Year to you all! New Year’s rose. Photo by EP
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