He was the arts correspondent for The Evening Standard and a contributing editor of ES Magazine.
His articles have also appeared in The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Economist, Tatler and The Field in the UK, in Die Welt in Germany, in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in Switzerland, and in ARTnews, Art and Auction, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal in the United States.
[2][3] He lectures on the history of the art market at Sotheby's in London, on the MA in the History and Business of Art and Collecting run by IESA at the Wallace Collection and at sea on the cruise ships of Noble Caledonia.
After a year at Cornell University he read a DPhil at St John's College, Oxford.
He moved to The Daily Telegraph in 1972 where he served as Parliamentary Sketchwriter, Arts Editor and leader writer on political and home affairs until 1997.