On Art
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
What Lowry saw in the sea
The philosophical side of the painter of “matchstalk men” adds to his charm
X scandal
The fault lay in the dirty minds of the viewers, he said
The unorthodox Englishness of Derek Jarman
The filmmaker was too complex to be reduced to a mere iconoclast
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
The riots and the social media blame game
Politicians blaming social media for the riots are hiding from state failings
Snapshot of the PM who killed his party
History is a wonderful guide to political practice in the present, just so long as nothing is different
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Are Jewish students really afraid of the Freedom of Speech Act?
Some of have raised concerns, yes, but generalisations are wrong and unhelpful
