Michael Delgado
@michaeldelgado.bsky.social
Assistant Editor @apollomagazine.bsky.social | formerly Literary Review | writes about culture and other things for The i, FT, Prospect, TLS etc.
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‘If Keats’s existence was dominated by uncertainty, the same is true of the house he lived in’ – Michael Delgado on the unlikely survival of Keats House in Hampstead, which this year celebrates its centenary as a museum
How John Keats found himself in Hampstead
The poet lived at Wentworth Place for only 17 months, but it was the site of some of his greatest achievements and lowest moments
apollo-magazine.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:30 AM
‘If Keats’s existence was dominated by uncertainty, the same is true of the house he lived in’ – Michael Delgado on the unlikely survival of Keats House in Hampstead, which this year celebrates its centenary as a museum
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‘Rubens – that great exponent of flamboyantly imaginative history paintings – had become wedded to the land around him’ – Michael Delgado visits the Flemish castle that inspired some of Rubens’s greatest landscapes
When Rubens was king of the castle | Apollo Magazine
The Flemish castle bought by Rubens in 1635 was intended as a country retreat, and it inspired the artist’s greatest landscapes, writes Michael Delgado
buff.ly
February 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM
‘Rubens – that great exponent of flamboyantly imaginative history paintings – had become wedded to the land around him’ – Michael Delgado visits the Flemish castle that inspired some of Rubens’s greatest landscapes
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One of my favourite small David Lynch moments is when he tried to do one of those ceramic art cows for New York City and submitted this and was rejected.
January 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
One of my favourite small David Lynch moments is when he tried to do one of those ceramic art cows for New York City and submitted this and was rejected.
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Disclaimer: this was an elective lobotomy, no one asked me to watch 100. But I did write an article about it for FT Mag here: www.ft.com/content/be15...
The wonderful, horrible, madcap world of the Christmas movie
Our festive viewing habits reflect Yuletide’s carnivalesque nature, a time when eccentric choices are celebrated
www.ft.com
December 19, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Disclaimer: this was an elective lobotomy, no one asked me to watch 100. But I did write an article about it for FT Mag here: www.ft.com/content/be15...