The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
The Turner Prize’s identity crisis
The art establishment has revived competent drawing in spite of itself
Merchants of the Venice Biennale
For all its pretentiousness, the Venice Biennale still hints towards higher truths
The sculptor’s funeral
The death of Imogen Stuart represents the passing of an Ireland that built, rather than destroyed
Nemesis comes to Charlottesville
As Americans gleefully melt down statues of Confederate leaders, they may soon discover that iconoclasm is no road to civic peace
The lives of other apes
How to think about our hominid cousins
The Queen’s plinth?
Let’s put this sorry landmark to patriotic use
Animation grows up
Jibaro is an artistic triumph
Oil, art and the perils of patronage
Art patrons have always been on the wrong side of history
Women on the edge
A feminist frame that doesn’t fit
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
