“... recognised by agreement with the estate of Kazimir Malevich in 2008’ – which may be one reason the show is so comprehensive. Born into a Polish family in Kiev in 1879, Malevich learned to paint in his teens, though nothing seems to remain from that time (so there is at least one Malevich we can’t now see). His first exhibition was in ...”

“... Ways, which had been impounded after being used by the people traffickers. Although the refugees may not have owned superyachts, they probably not so long ago enjoyed expensive holidays in places like Symi. Neurologists, international lawyers, bankers and judges were among those forced to sleep (the sexes unsegregated) on the concrete terrace of the police ...”

“... it turns out, actually wants to meet his maker. A later implication is that the creature may not have been interested in spreading his genes, only in testing some noxious experimental liquid that his species had developed on a planet safely distant from its own home. Still, the firm is clear about the evidence. The DNA of the dead people in this ...”

“... of the early 1920s. Price levels in January 1946 were more than five trillion times those of May 1941. The exchange rate for the gold sovereign in the autumn of 1944, shortly after the liberation, stood at 170 trillion drachmas. By that time, Davis’s pile of notes would scarcely have been enough to buy a loaf of bread. Commentators on the current ...”

“... Rafah crossing. (A commentator in Haaretz warns that Israel, now relishing Morsi’s overthrow, may come to miss him.) He couldn’t abide criticism, and appeared to have no more scruples than Mubarak about torture or attacks on the press. Worst of all, he did nothing to improve an economy in free-fall or to reform the security services, while styling ...”

“... chieftain and his even more awesome priestess wife, complete with jealous would-be son-in-law, may look like extras from every tribal encounter you have known Westerners to simulate, whether in a fictional Africa or America or Australia – or even New Zealand, where much of the film was shot – but their planet itself is an elaborate neural network of ...”

“... two decades, and the retreat from avant-garde adventures (he had experimented with Pointillism), may have been a result. When he returned to painting in the last decades of his life he reverted to the Impressionism of his youth. Adjacent rooms that contain the Ashmolean’s collection of Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, Sickerts and Camden Town ...”

“... the father is not the question. This scene seems to prove Freud right in his father-theory, but it may just show that Jung is obtuse, or even that Freud would be likely to faint if any theory he held were seriously contested. The other theory that gets quite an outing in the film is that represented by Jung’s denial of coincidence. He has various ...”

“... seen in galleries. They are as proper a place for them as the theatre is for plays. Religious art may give one pause – even non-believers can feel that an object of veneration, an altarpiece say, loses something when put in a cool well-lit place, but on the whole art stands up to the museum pretty well. For many modern painters the museum was the space they ...”

“... except its covers. Starobinski has provided an introduction to the English translation that may be intended to reduce the sense of scatter, but I don’t think it succeeds. It does, however, provide quotable examples of his sometimes overheated style. On Ulysses listening to the minstrel Demodocos sing of his (Ulysses’) exploits: ‘In opposition to ...”

“... but it has the colour of the music hall or the circus, and it is haunted by the funeral it may seem to announce. Petit’s American exploit is a cultural crossing: danger in New York as a kind of French gaiety. Petit’s friends and helpers, interviewed on film, both confirm and trouble this view. They are all older, of course, proud of Petit, proud of ...”

“... hacksaw were found in his flat. He was duly convicted of three murders and according to the police may have been responsible for more. Scotland Yard was not, however, to be diverted from its belief that Adam’s murder had a West African connection. The child had been circumcised – as many boys in Africa are. Even more decisive was DNA evidence which showed ...”

“... superi vollent hoc licuisse sibi. They improvised translations and sipped wine. Here’s Thomas May’s then Addison’s then mine: Vesuvius, shaded once with greenest vines Where pressed grapes did yield the noblest wines; Which hill far more than Nysa Bacchus lov’d, Where satyrs once in mirthful dances mov’d, Where Venus dwelt, and better lov’d the ...”

“... made governor of the colony known as the ‘Cittie of Raleigh’. He had set out from Plymouth in May, with a party of colonists that included his daughter and her husband, to establish the settlement. They were installed at Roanoke in July and on 18 August his granddaughter Virginia was born. On 27 August White set off for England to get provisions. Those he ...”

“... appearance of television in the world of cinema; a nifty cultural joke and an act of memory. You may remember that a treasured artefact in the episode called ‘Twenty-Two Short Films about Springfield’ (1996) was a photograph of Sean Connery signed by Roger Moore. At one point in the big-screen film the action stops abruptly and the words ‘To be ...”