Walking On The Best Artwork In Edinburgh

“The best art at this year’s Edinburgh festival is not in a gallery. It is under your feet. You walk up and down it and you may, if you like, look at it as a work of art; but no one is forcing you to experience it that way. … Martin Creed has created a work of art so perfectly integrated into the world that you feel a bit of a fool for making a fuss over it.”

Shakespeare Cusses So Much Better Than You And I Do

Rupert Christiansen: “The other day, in search of a quotation, I was leafing through Shakespeare’s Henry V. The character of choleric Ancient Pistol reminded me that the Elizabethans approached cussing much more imaginatively than we do, treating it as an opportunity for elaborate verbal invention rather than just taking potshots at the same flat monosyllables.”