A ONE-MAN MARKET
Andy Warhol is an art-world colossus whose work accounts for one-sixth of contemporary-art sales. How did that happen, and is he really worth it? Bryan Appleyard canvasses the experts ...
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A GAME, A GADGET AND AN APP
Tom Standage enjoys a telescope that looks like a penguin, and has a whale of a time slicing fruit ...
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A WATERY UNDERWORLD
Under the sweltering surface of the Yucatán peninsula are caverns full of cool fresh water. Tom Wainwright takes the plunge to get to the bottom of their role in Mexican history ...
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EIGHT GOOD BOOKS
Maggie Fergusson enjoys a Booker-winner, a fine life of Dickens and a sharp twist on Homer ...
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A MOVEABLE FEAST
Diego Rivera's murals, made in 1931 and on show at MoMA, are luminous paintings which still carry potent messages ... read more »
THE MAXIMUM MINIMALIST
Philip Glass is 75 this year, and he shows no sign of slowing down. New York celebrates with a season of performances ... read more »
THROUGH THE ISINGLASS
The best-known of all British cookbooks is 150 years old—and full of surprises. Christopher Hirst tries Mrs Beeton’s tastier oddities ... read more »
UP IN THE AIR
"All", an exhibition of Maurizio Cattelan's art at the Guggenheim in New York, is an audacious anti-retrospective ... read more »
THE BEST TIME: EARLY CHILDHOOD
For Ann Wroe, life is best when the world is simple, new and there to be discovered ... read more »
FILM-MAKING WITH A CROWBAR
Nicholas Barber feels patronised by "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan", a film which mixes 19th-century China with 21st-century issues ... read more »
A LADY WITH TWO FACES
“Lady with an Ermine” is the second-most famous woman in Leonardo’s life. As she makes a rare trip to London, Francesca Kay looks at her magic ... read more »
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quote If you did studies of crowd behaviour in different population groups, different value systems, a wide range of societies from paternalism through to total individual freedom and differentiated them you would get completely different results. A crisis situation where people have been injured in a bomb blast does not bring out crowd behaviour it brings out values....there were those who stayed to help and there were those who ran a mile...