The myriad Mona Lisas
How the multiple Mona Lisa copies, and their prices, testify to the longstanding fame of the painting and its mystique
Full of Eastern promise
Out with the old, in with the new: Michael Prodger on art collection trends
Benin’s bronze ambassadors
What the opening of the Edo Museum of West African Art means for the potential restitution of 2,807 historical bronze artefacts
Crypto-art for cryptomillions
Digital art: the millennial trend
Mystery of the lost Rembrandt
Michael Prodger tracks the story of a lost masterpiece
The mystery of the folded dragon
Michael Prodger recounts the tale of Hergé’s drawing for the cover of the Tintin instalment: The Blue Lotus
Queen of Kitsch
Frida Kahlo: Her brand has quickly spread from cult to cliché
Carry on spending
Even the venerable and conservative Louvre is exploring various fundraising novelties, says Michael Prodger
Stars, stripes and dollars
Michael Prodger on the artists who make huge sums for painting the US flag
Tate Modern in a terrible tangle
Tate Modern gets itself in a terrible tangle over a cancelled show
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands