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Sunday Times writer, author. Interviewer of the Year, BPA, 2014. Three times Feature Writer of the Year. CBE 2019.
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When will the art world acknowledge this master?

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By Bryan Appleyard Verified
| The Spectator Australia Verified
Watercolours can be fatal for your standing in the art world. ‘As soon as you say you paint in watercolour,’ says Gerard Stamp, ‘you can see people popping you into a pigeonhole – ah, you’re a Sunday painter doing vases of flowers.’ There are many flaws in the aesthetics of the ‘art world’, but this one is unusually absurd. Stamp’s paintings are some of the most beautiful of our time.
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The wisdom of not knowing

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By Bryan Appleyard Verified
| Engelsberg Ideas
On the Equality of All Things: Physics and Philosophy, Carlo Rovelli, Allen Lane, £20 85 Seconds to Midnight: A Physicist’s Argument Against Rearmament, Carlo Rovelli, Allen Lane, £9.99 Carlo Rovelli is now 70 and these two books have the air of closing arguments. Then again, all his books sound like closing arguments and he doesn’t really pay attention to his own death. I met him some years ago in Marseille and we sailed around on his pointu, a wooden boat with two pointed ends.
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What’s in a kiss? A millennium of mixed messages

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By Bryan Appleyard Verified
| The Spectator Australia Verified
The Kiss: A History of Passion and Power Reaktion Books, pp.240, 20 Kissing is a tricky subject. It has a complex, baffling history. The kiss of a baby is one thing; the kiss of lust something quite else. Kings, generals and prelates used to kiss, as did mafiosi – often before killing. The kiss has many meanings, all of which are explored in this informative, if sometimes wearing, book. Finally, a warning: if you’re queasy about arse-kissing, don’t read it. But then you would be missing a lot.
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