Maggi Hambling’s Wollstonecraft is earnestly nonconformist
Hambling is like Wollstonecraft – a strong-minded, independent woman who has taken considerable public criticism over many years
Marxist Magic Realism
How Soviet society, gripped by political correctness, descended into madness
In search of Old Mistresses
The National Gallery is putting women artists centre stage
Melancholy of obsolete futures
Alexander Adams on Soviet Brutalism and where to read about it
Property is Speech
Tearing down Edward Colston’s statue conceals the past and suppresses the speech of the dead
How artivism captured the ICA
If the Institute of Contemporary Arts wants to be in the vanguard of “social justice” activism should it retain its charitable status?
Belgian light amid the gloom
The work of two fine artists is gaining belated and well-deserved recognition
True Feminism has Never Been Tried, Comrade
Alexander Adams reviews Women Can’t Paint by Helen Gørrill
Picturing Colonial Africa
Alexander Adams reviews Postcards from Africa: Photographs of the Colonial Era, by Christraud M. Geary
Hidden London
Hidden London’s evocative photos of dereliction will fascinate commuters and tourists alike
Well wicked women
If she were a man, Lisa HIlton would surely be celebrated as the roving public intellectual she so clearly is
Are American universities under foreign control?
Paul du Quenoy reveals the unreported foreign investment in US universities
Small, but perfectly formed
John Self examines three varied, emotionally satisfying novels that together come in at less than the length of a single Mantel
Don’t kiss me, Kate: purging the American academy
Was Kate Pickering Antonova Twitter storm an unintended announcement of academia’s irrelevance?
A country is a home or it’s nothing
Homes for heroes, ordinary people, anyone really – just build them
The games people play
‘This Sporting Life’ should be read by our managerial ruling class who dismiss what they do not understand as “populist” or “right-wing”
Hell on wheels
Tom Chesshyre endures some mercifully brief encounters
Woo-woo wins out
I’ve succeeded in keeping Will in London… for now
From Brick Lane to Brixton
Stoddard Martin delves into a world beyond police and courtroom, with its own code of right and wrong, in Gerald Jacobs’s Pomeranski
You Know, Thingamabob
A lockdown memoir: Surprising conversations with my father