Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Kimchi culture
A new gallery pursues a pungent kind of artistic and intellectual renewal
A Freudian slip
Was Golden Age Vienna the birthplace of the modern mind?
Scary cute
CUTE, a new exhibition at Somerset House is a deliciously unsettling stroll down the uncanny valley
Women’s anger and women’s ambiguities
A new exhibition offers interesting, if sometimes confusing, perspectives on women in revolt
The Romantic Resurrection
The death of art, AI and what comes next
Art with extra ideology
Not everything has to be about gender
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
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
The dark underbelly of the sex industry
Advocacy for the idea of sex work has not been matched by advocacy for the exploited
Why was a foreign rapist in Britain?
The sad background to a horrific case
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
