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Things
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All articles were first published in
The Guardian
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'Flower Power',
The Guardian, 9 September 2006 [On what makes a garden
great].
'More Than a Feeling',
The Guardian, 16 September 2006 [On the part emotions
play in music].
'Da Vinci Notes',
The Guardian, 23 September 2006 [On the legend of Leonardo].
'Ones They Made Earlier',
The Guardian, 30 September 2006: 15 [On Russian folk
artifacts].
'Written on the Body',
The Guardian, 7 October 2006 [On the criminal intent
of tattoos].
'There Is Thy Sting',
The Guardian, 14 October 2006 [On John Dowland's Lute
Songs].
'Death Stares',
The Guardian, 21 October 2006 [On the art of washing
corpses].
'Fan's List',
The Guardian, 28 October 2006 [On the V&A and lists].
'Museum Collection',
The Guardian, 4 November 2006 [On the Ashmolean appeal].
'Five Easy Pieces',
The Guardian, 11 November 2006 [On piano examinations].
'What good is sitting
alone in your room?', The Guardian, 18 November 2006
[On the face of pre-Nazi Germany].
'Kitchen Capers',
The Guardian, 25 November 2006 [Fenton messes around
with polenta].
'A Lasting Legacy',
The Guardian, 2 December 2006 [Fenton remembers Susan
Sontag].
'Missing the Royal
Seal of Approval', The Guardian, 9 December 2006
[On why there is no 'Royal' in National Gallery].
'Bravo Maestro',
The Guardian, 16 December 2006: 15 [On tea at the Ritz
with Robert Craft].
'Down to the Choir',
The Guardian, 23 December 2006: 12 [Fenton sings Messiah's
praises].
'Voices from the Past',
The Guardian, 30 December 2006 [Fenton listens to poems
on disc].
'Less Deceived',
The Guardian, 6 January 2007: 15 [On the relationship
between writing and personal experience].
'Featherlight Opera',
The Guardian, 13 January 2007: 15 [On how the size of
opera houses can have varying effects].
'How does your garden
grow?', The Guardian, 20 January 2007: 15 [Fenton
discusses the blooming winter garden].
'Eastern Premise',
The Guardian, 27 January 2007: 15 [Fenton discusses Mughal
paintings].
'Courting Success',
The Guardian, 3 February 2007: 15 [Fenton on sense and
sensibility at the RSC].
'Received Wisdom',
The Guardian, 10 February 2007: 15 [Fenton reflects on
memories lost and found].
'Tell It Like It Is',
The Guardian, 17 February 2007: 15 [On the difficult
art of aphorism].
'Exotic Fiction',
The Guardian, 24 February 2007: 15 [On the evolution
of Puccini's Madama Butterfly].
'Catalogue of Concerns',
The Guardian, 3 March 2007: 15 [On the value of books].
'The Author's Progress',
The Guardian, 10 March 2007: 15 [On the beauty of Hogarth
and Tristram Shandy].
'The Voyage of Their
Life', The Guardian, 17 March 2007: 15 [Fenton discovers
human history in the logbooks of empire].
'Was Shakespeare a
Crypto-Catholic?', The Guardian, 24 March 2007: 15
[Fenton on people's willingness to believe any old rubbish about
Shakespeare].
'Song Lines', The
Guardian, 31 March 2007: 15 [Fenton on setting poems to
music].
'The Fruit of Inertia',
The Guardian, 7 April 2007: 15 [Fenton on the beauty
of England's suburbs in spring].
'Unsafe
City', The Guardian, 14 April 2007: 15 [Fenton on
Harlem homes].
'Songs of the Sea',
The Guardian, 21 April 2007: 15 [Fenton on sea shanties].
'Paint Me a Picture',
The Guardian, 28 April 2007 [On the skill of detailed
description].
'Colour Blind',
The Guardian, 5 May 2007 [Fenton wonders what William
Blake really thought about slavery].
'You Shouldn't Have',
The Guardian, 12 May 2007 [On the art of giving].
'Monet Talks',
The Guardian, 19 May 2007 [Fenton on the exhibition The
Unknown Monet at the Royal Academy].
'Home from Home',
The Guardian, 26 May 2007 [Fenton on Jean Prouvé
(1901-1984)].
'Venetian Bind',
The Guardian, 2 June 2007 [Fenton on Death in Venice].
'Russian Roulette',
The Guardian, 9 June 2007 [Fenton on Prokofiev].
'Facing the Music',
The Guardian, 16 June 2007 [Fenton on the consequences
of Robert King's conviction].
'Picture Perfect',
The Guardian, 23 June 2007 [Fenton stops by Christie's
to view a Raphael portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici].
'Manors Maketh Man',
The Guardian, 30 June 2007 [Fenton on a National Trust
treasure -- Waddesdon Manor].
'The Perception of
Doors', The Guardian, 7 July 2007 [Fenton on the
Gates of Paradise].
'Hot Foot', The
Guardian, 14 July 2007 [Fenton discusses Mark Morris].
'Blooming Marvellous',
The Guardian, 1 September 2007 [Fenton helps his garden
run wild].
'Not with a Bang',
The Guardian, 8 September 2007 [Fenton on poets Wilfred
Owen, Laurent Tailhade ... and explosive events].
'Reading the Room',
The Guardian, 15 September 2007 [Fenton on poetry readings
and performances].
'Left Hand Gluck',
The Guardian, 22 September 2007 [Fenton shares Berlioz's
love for Gluck].
'Hanging On',
The Guardian, 29 September 2007 [Fenton on policies for
museum sales].
'A Touch of Expertise',
The Guardian, 6 October 2007 [Fenton on the V & A's
The Making of Sculpture show].
'Keyboard Words',
The Guardian, 13 October 2007 [Fenton on the electric
harpsichord].
'Wagner's Happy Bears
Prowl Again', The Guardian, 20 October 2007 [Fenton
on a work by the younger and more bohemian composer].
'Life's Rich Tapestries',
The Guardian, 27 October 2007 [Fenton gives old tapestries
a new spin].
'Memories of Spain',
The Guardian, 3 November 2007 [Fenton on a great little
museum in Manhattan -- The Hispanic Society of America].
'Rembrandt Reaches
the Web', The Guardian, 10 November 2007 [Fenton
on the British Museum quietly launching its comprehensive website
of what it calls flat art].
'The Need to Complete',
The Guardian, 17 November 2007 [Fenton on need for a
complete edition of the works of TS Eliot].
'Fakes and Counterfeits',
The Guardian, 24 November 2007 [Fenton on the art of
forgery -- and getting away with it].
'A Landscape All of
Its Own', The Guardian, 1 December 2007 [Fenton on
the roof of Gaudí's masterpiece, La Pedrera].
'Old Master Criminals',
The Guardian, 8 December 2007 [Fenton on robber barons
in the art market].
'Singing the Songs
of Love', The Guardian, 15 December 2007 [Fenton
on Spanish ballads].
'A Call to Arms',
The Guardian, 22 December 2007 [Fenton on the joy of
ancient armour].
'The Structure Beneath',
The Guardian, 29 December 2007 [Fenton on the legacy
of Piranesi].
'Remember
Dorothy', The Guardian, 5 January 2008 [Fenton revisits
Dorothy Wordsworth].
'Living
a Life', The Guardian, 12 January 2008 [Fenton on
the Ashcan artists].
'Bard
Times', The Guardian, 19 January 2008 [Fenton on
AL Rowse].
'Portrait
of a Lady', The Guardian, 26 January 2008 [Fenton
on the true Mona Lisa].
'Notes
on a Theme', The Guardian, 2 February 2008 [Fenton
on improvisation].
'Flora
International', The Guardian, 9 February 2008 [Fenton
on the origins of the flower trade].
'Object
of Desire', The Guardian, 16 February 2008 [Fenton
on the lure of Saint Sebastian].
'Look
Back in Wonder', The Guardian, 23 February 2008 [Fenton
admires neoclassical sculpture].
'Consuming
Passions', The Guardian, 1 March 2008 [Fenton on
differing views of Bach's Passions].
'Private
View', The Guardian, 8 March 2008 [Fenton explores
the origin of the world at the Met in New York].
'Restoration
and Removal', The Guardian, 15 March 2008 [Fenton
on moving rooms around the world].
'Purloined
Pictures', The Guardian, 29 March 2008 [Fenton on
the Nazi leaders' love of Cranach].
'Come
into the Garden', The Guardian, 5 April 2008 [Fenton
on the unique exotic garden at Tresco].
'Faust
Lost in Translation?', The Guardian, 12 April 2008
[Fenton on Coleridge's lost version of Goethe's classic drama].
'Basement
Treasures', The Guardian, 19 April 2008 [Fenton on
basement treasures].
'Past
Notes', The Guardian, 26 April 2008 [Fenton on changing
fortunes in Handel operas].
'Making
Tradition', The Guardian, 3 May 2008 [Fenton on the
creation of canons].
'All
at Sea', The Guardian, 10 May 2008. [Fenton on a
seaman's secret diary].
'Taste
Acquired', The Guardian, 17 May 2008 [Fenton on the
style of Thomas Hope].
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