The gender discount
Women may now account for 64 per cent of fine arts graduates in Britain but research shows the old values remain entrenched, says Michael Prodger
Ring up the new
The most expensive post-war work sold last year fetched just over $91 million. The most expensive Old Master sold for $21.5 million
To catch a thief
Is a super-rich collector having works stolen to order?
The late Leonardo
The Louvre’s anniversary exhibition has been a fraught exercise from first to last
Studio: Election Artists
Michael Prodger takes a look at the artists who paint politics
Bitter pills
Ethical values and financial necessity are not always perfectly compatible
The Critic Interview: Gilbert and George
Michael Prodger meets the defiantly independent duo who back Brexit and resent the hostility of the art establishment towards them
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
An open letter against assisted dying
118 academics oppose the Leadbeater Bill
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Can Macron survive?
France appears to be becoming ungovernable
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
