Jacob Willer
Jacob Willer is an artist. You can find his Twitter at @WillerJacob
Feminist art historians get Artemisia Gentileschi wrong
Contemporary feminist art theory: little help in understanding a seventeenth century artist
Maggi Hambling’s sculpture is simply bad art
Perhaps if it were a simply better artwork, then Hambling’s statue would have been more warmly received
Unwelcome rise of a truly awful artist
Jacob Willer examines the extravagant claims made about an Italian painter hailed as the saviour of revivalism
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
