This is the house that Heidi built. We're sitting in Lavender House on Gayton Road, Heidi Locher's London home, set far back from the road behind a high gate, a temple to Modernism hidden between the Victorian walls of her Hampstead neighbours.

Though identifiable as a music writer, Paolo is also very much a social historian. 'The thing about the internet these days, and home recording, is that music has become so much more accessible, but to be honest with you, I can't keep up with it all.'

In 2010, the philosopher Roger Scruton, together with the BBC, made a documentary titled Why Beauty Matters, in which he gave an eloquent and impassioned plea for a return to the beautiful aesthetic, pointing towards the unifying and spiritually uplifting qualities of beauty.

At the beginning of the 21st Century, brevity is back in vogue. Twitter is an extension of Hemingway's challenge to anyone brave enough to accept it, and, like the modernists' reaction to photography and the 'brief encounter', it cultivates new ways of seeing and thinking.

The Scream - on display in London now The only privately-owned version of Edvard Munch's classic masterpiece The Scream has gone on show in L...

Oh, cats. Where would the internet be without you? Not since ancient Egypt have our feline friends been so widely worshipped as today – and this...

A version of Edvard Munch's masterpiece The Scream is to go on display in London in April before being auctioned in New York the following month. T...

It's a good job art isn’t a particularly tribal pursuit, or Picasso and British Modern Art would be a pretty devastating show for the British pu...

It has many ornate and ancient architectural gems among its collection, but the National Trust is to open the doors of a house where the straight line...