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Jim Chapman: ‘I once signed an autograph as Andrew Garfield by accident’The YouTuber and creative chats to Lotte Brundle about moving to the countryside, content creators today and why he doesn’t read his own press.
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Monaco's answer to Scotland's NC500 is proof that it's the Riviera’s new culture capitalSteven King makes the case for walking the Principality’s open-air sculpture trail.
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What David Hockney said about art was rightThis week's Athena looks back at what the famous artist thought about his artform.
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Forget doom scrolling, Art History is the best way for Gen Z to embrace visual cultureThis week's leader looks at how studying Art History can better help today's youth to understand the world they live in.
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'Culture is fundamental to how we think of ourselves': The head of the Courtauld on The Arts, AI and the impoverishment of the public realmErnst Vegelin van Claerbergen talks to Carla Passino how our approach to culture can define British identity, what makes him optimistic about the future and why he’s looking forward to the sounds of diggers and jackhammers.
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The Church of Scotland is perpetrating cultural blackmail on us all by threatening to sell St Marnock'sThe potential sale of a Scottish church would be extremely disappointing, notes Athena.
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From a white horse to a concrete house: Five major milestones in English art historyCharlotte Mullins, author of 'The Art Isles: A 15,000-year story of art in Britain and Ireland', looks at some of England's most vital artworks.
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‘They’re brilliantly bonkers, but who on earth would build a pier today?’In the face of ferocious storms and changing visitor tastes, how can the British pier survive and flourish over the coming decades, asks Jonathan Lee.
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Alan Titchmarsh: ‘Being from Yorkshire is akin to being English with knobs on’To celebrate this week's 'English Issue', six individuals reflect on what being English means to them. Last but not least, Country Life's very own Alan Titchmarsh.
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With Nothing Underneath's founder Pip Durell: ‘The Meghan Markle effect? That was crazy’Once a fashion assistant at Tatler making a measly ‘£12,000 a year’, Pip Durell is now the founder and CEO of With Nothing Underneath. Lotte Brundle meets her.
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Sir Tristram Hunt: 'Here is the brilliance, eccentricity, liberty and skill of the English’To celebrate the release of our recent 'English Issue', Paula Minchin spoke to six individuals on what being English means to them. Today's is the director of the V&A Sir Tristram Hunt.
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John Simpson: ‘I’d narrowly escaped execution as a British army spy in republican West Belfast'To celebrate the release of our recent 'English Issue', Paula Minchin spoke to six individuals on what being English means to them. Today's is John Simpson, the BBC’s world affairs editor.
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Write of way: The landscapes that inspired our greatest literary worksMemorable novels are created when real places inspire imaginations. Kate Green tours England's windswept moors, hidden creeks, gossipy villages and centres of industry that have led to the most enduring literary associations.
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Floella, Baroness Benjamin: ‘66 years ago, this new world felt alien and harsh, but I grew to love the English's eccentricities and peculiarities'To celebrate the release of this week's 'English Issue', Paula Minchin spoke to six individuals on what being English means to them. Today's is the Trinidadian-British actress and Liberal Democrat peer, Floella Benjamin.
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'The exhibition reminds you in a very physical way that everything is connected': How Britain’s greatest sculptor engages with the worldThe largest solo exhibition of Antony Gormley's work in continental Europe prompts Charlotte Mullins to ask how an artist engages with the world when their work is located outside of the gallery.
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Sally Phillips: ‘I accidentally lived in a brothel’Lotte Brundle talks to the actor about returning to the stage after 20 years, her frustration at never getting to kiss Colin Firth in the Bridget Jones films and wanting to look like ET.
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Sir John Major: ‘For all its frustrations, England is where I wish to live. I feel blessed to be British'To celebrate the release of this week's 'English Issue', Paula Minchin spoke to six individuals on what being English means to them. Today's is former prime minister The Rt Hon Sir John Major KG CH.
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Tom Parker Bowles: ‘The English art of the witty put down is unmatched’To celebrate this week's 'English Issue', six individuals reflect on what being English means to them. First up: Country Life's very own Tom Parker Bowles.
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A T-Rex by the name of Gus is going up for auction — and he could be the most expensive dinosaur ever soldThe dinosaur skeleton will be on the market as part of Sotheby’s Geek Week auction, next month.
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Was there ever a city so densely populated by brilliant minds, so tightly packed with bright ideas? Mark Rothko is following in the footsteps of Michelangelo and taking over FlorenceA major retrospective of Mark Rothko's work is now open in Florence. Steven King went to have a look.
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Hugo Vickers: 'Wallis Simpson enjoyed being the King’s friend, but in no way did she want to become his wife, or to cause a major constitutional crisis'Why everything we've been told about ‘the woman who stole the King’ is wrong, by toyal biographer Hugo Vickers.
