On Art
The second life of Pauline Boty
Critics should not drown this much-needed revival in emotive clichés
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?
Ukraine cannot avoid partition
Ukraine must not capitulate and demilitarise, but de-facto partition is now an inevitability
Try Christianity
Reflecting on the cross, we find a truth that is often too easy to forget
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
In memory of Lord Cormack
Britain has lost a wise and dedicated public servant
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
Don’t forget Nicola Sturgeon’s nodding dogs
The SNP have been enabled by uncritical British media
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
A passage to Istria
Long nights and grey days turn our correspondent’s mind to the Croatian coast
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
