On Art
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
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
Kimchi culture
A new gallery pursues a pungent kind of artistic and intellectual renewal
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
Marriage matters
We have to fix the foundations of the family
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
The Lost Gardens of London
The war between city and greenery is eternal; the concrete and asphalt seeks open land to engulf
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
Max Grubb
Resentful Academic
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
Robot recipes
Against cooking by algorithm
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
