A Revival In Portraits

“Five years ago the National Portrait Gallery celebrated its 150th anniversary – but this year it may have even more to celebrate. The art of portraiture appears to be having a revival. Since that anniversary, numbers of visitors to the gallery are up by around 100,000, and the launch of the new BP Portrait Award Next Generation show sold out – with, says the gallery.”

Is The Internet Killing Creativity?

“Suppose we found that computers are diminishing our capacity for certain pleasures, or making us worse off in other ways. Why couldn’t we simply spend less time in front of the screen and more time doing the things we used to do before computers came along – like burying our noses in novels? Well, it may be that computers are affecting us in a more insidious fashion than we realise.”