England’s Caravaggio
Matthew Craske’s book challenges the prevailing idea of Joseph Wright as product and servant of rationalism and Enlightenment
A life in miniature
‘Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life’ is Brigitte Benkemoun’s discovery of the provenance of the address book and what it told her about the owner’s life
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
