The winter issue of The Quarterly

The winter edition of The Quarterly is out now. The quirky Quarterly is the expert's guide to good living, published with The Week and created by Show Media. This issue explores time and we travel back to 1858 when the V&A was the first museum to collect and exhibit photographs; curator Marta Weiss describes how the new Photographs Gallery allows more of the permanent collection to be on public display.

Elsewhere the musician and artist Ronnie Wood talks about how time is on his side, and sommelier Dawn Davies recommends her favourite vintage champagne; we sniff out the most enduring fragrances, salute the mighty mushroom with chef/restaurateur Mark Hix, and showcase this year's timepiece classics. And Marek Kukula, the public astronomer, observes how our attitudes to time are constantly changing. The recent CERN experiment, which suggested that tiny particles called neutrinos might be able to travel faster than the speed of light, has caught our attention.     

Also in this issue Stephen Bayley writes about his friend and collaborator Terence Conran, Today presenter Justin Webb reveals how the nature of news has changed and Ian Belcher chooses transport to suit your pace – from slowboat to supersonic.