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
Bad manners
Did a Miami Art Gallery really sell a Rembrandt by accident?
The curious case of the “Gaylor” affair
Whatever the framing, the sexuality is the story
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Those WhatsApp groups in full
Thirteen reasons to ban politicians from smartphones
Let there be love
Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
Jolyon’s little investigation
Questions have emerged about the founder of the Good Law Project’s approach to privacy
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
Why the Intellectual Dark Web has failed
Internet ideologues have yet to formulate a coherent vision to turn their ideas into action
