On Art
Beneath Disney’s Hood
Robin Hood marked the beginning of a steep decline for the much-loved brand
Resurrecting Lavery
The decline of Sir John Lavery’s reputation was undeserved
Does the Turner Prize still matter?
This year’s exhibition offers a diversity of style if not of ideology
A novel collector
The legacy left by art collector and novelist Hugh Walpole
Tove Jansson’s humane vision
A major Paris exhibition highlights timeless themes of the Finnish artist’s ouvre
Forever stuck in the nineties
Sarah Lucas and the sexual revolution that wasn’t
Frans Hals’ sense of fun
A delightful display of portraiture at the National Gallery
A new madonna
On AI and authenticity
Growth, grift and speculation
What can art tell us about economics?
Polish lessons for Ukrainian reconstruction
What can the Ukrainians learn from post-war Warsaw?
The strange death of Spain
A power-hungry socialist Prime Minister has struck a deal with separatists
Hellmann’s, humbug and chutzpah
Three cheers for hypocrisy in the Unilever boardroom
Leave those cigs along
A new tax on rolling tobacco will backfire
Going viral
From tumbles off the stage to the anxieties of age
What went wrong with Peter Foster?
A lazy series of talking points for Remainers
Haunting Ghosts
Two timely dramatisations of espionage in the Middle East
Searching for sense amid chaos
What makes Traditionalism controversial and alien is also what makes it important
Espionage and the cost of living crisis
Underpaid and overworked staffers are an easy target for Chinese cash
The end of liberalism?
Patrick Deneen’s book finds new beginnings at the end of an era
Don’t stop the music
Closures at Oxford Brookes are a sad reflection on the state of the academic music sector
The limits of vengeance
We should be careful to avoid natural outrage inspiring irrationality
