The real thrill here is in the extraordinary skill with which it's all done. There is quite a small study of a nude man by Leonardo da Vinci, done in black ink and red chalk on a piece of red-coloured paper. Using marks so subtle you can sometimes hardly see them, he shows every muscle tensed and working: no photographer has ever shown a body quite so alive. ...read
EVENT COLUMNISTS
- PIERS MORGAN: 'I'm now officially a thespian,' Freddie Flintoff declared This year, the Morgan XI ringers included Freddie Flintoff and Kevin Pietersen
- DEBORAH ROSS: Oh, for the golden days of Telly vision! Nothing will ever, ever compete with my favourite celebrity travelogue of all time
- CHRIS EVANS: At 43, the Golf GTi looks better than ever and, wow, it's fast. But why do its brilliant designers give up when they get to the interior?
TOM PARKER BOWLES ON FOOD
Smoked eel and... popcorn: It's - rightly - a Brighton legend. But how did English's get so pretentious?
As others happily tucked into whole brown crabs, moules marinière and briny West Mersea Rocks - the great staples that have kept English's thriving for all these years - we strayed off the well-trodden path. And were gobbled up by a big, bad and prissily pretentious wolf. ...read
OLLY SMITH ON WINE
Pinot Grigio a no-go? Then swap it for the mineral-rich zest of Gavi, Italy's underrated answer to Chablis
So rather than do Pinot Grigio down, I reckon Gavi should be the surprise hit of this summer - mysteriously underrated for under a tenner on plenty of supermarket shelves, and the fresh 2016 vintage is delivering the goods. ...read
TECH
The clocks are going back: This defiantly retro alarm clock is impressively hi-tech
The Roberts Ortus 3 is defiantly retro - so much so that it boasts of having a port to 'plug in your iPod', which reminded me of just how long it was since I actually owned one. ...read
CHRIS EVANS ON CARS
At 43, the Golf GTi looks better than ever and, wow, it's fast. But why do its brilliant designers give up when they get to the interior?
My, what a cleverly designed car this new Golf is. Right up there with the Fiat 500 for best reimagined classic. I don't think the GTi has ever looked better than it does today. They say that by the age of 50 we humans get the face we deserve, one of the clichés I have always both liked and agreed with. Now it seems the GTi is suggesting this rule may well apply to motor cars. ...read
PIERS MORGAN: MY LIFE & OTHER CELEBRITIES
'I'm now officially a thespian,' Freddie Flintoff declared
This year, the Morgan XI ringers were Freddie Flintoff, Kevin Pietersen, West Indian legend Chris Gayle and football star Robbie Savage. Gayle, the self-styled 'Universe Boss' and cricket's most flamboyant character, flew in yesterday after a whirlwind trip from Jamaica, via Miami, LA and Australia. ...read
LAST WEEK'S EVENT
Craig Brown says ditch the murder mysteries for a dark classic. For Rachel Johnson it's chiller thrillers all the way. Whatever YOUR taste, Event's critics (and a few celebrity chums) have a book to make the holidays go swimmingly
Thrillers, with their tick-in-the-box characterisation and severely limited plot lines in which the goodie invariably turns out to be the baddie, and/or vice versa, have stopped thrilling me. You might as well play Patience or Join-the-Dots. Holidays - when your imagination has time to roam - are perfect for tackling something more interesting. ...read
As a new film lifts the lid on the life of the legendary lensman Mick Rock, he shares his secrets with Event
Shot! The Psycho Spiritual Mantra Of Rock, directed by Barney Clay, documents the photographer's crazed life and near-death experiences as he searches for the ultimate rock 'n' roll image. ...read ...read