Lola Salem
Lola Salem is an Oxford-based scholar and art critic. She tweets at @SalemLola
Biting the hand that feeds them
So-called “radical” performance art is little more than a publicly-funded alliance between the art establishment and faux-rebellious poseurs
Manifesto for how we love now
Louise Perry suggests that ancestral prudence is now lost among the youth
Liberté autorité identité
France pivots to liberal authoritarianism, not conservatism
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
Who’s advising the migration advisors?
We deserve more transparency when it comes to who and what influences British immigration policy
Playing the victim
A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism
The court of hot air
We do not need human rights law to protect human rights or to maintain the rule of law
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
Keep your shirt on
Don your white shirt with a flash of scarlet à la the fashion bitches
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
“Problematic” art
This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance