Art sales slump
Real world issues have quenched the post-COVID euphoria
Art of the deal
A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
A neglected radical
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière was an artistic and social pioneer
Remnant Rubens
A provincial folk artist offers an alternative view of Georgian society
X scandal
The fault lay in the dirty minds of the viewers, he said
First impressions
The first Impressionist exhibition was no obscure bit of posturing, but artistic sedition
Netherworld
The Dutch golden age could be anything but for the painters
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
A defensive concern under the right conditions can morph into a warrant for brutal expansionism
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
The futility of safeguards for assisted suicide
Lessons from Belgium and the Netherlands
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Brutalist beauties
These monstrosities were imposed on the population, not desired
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
Tough women take on the bad guys
When it comes to spy dramas and domestic angst, less is very definitely more
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
