On Art
A tawdry death imitating art
Francis Bacon’s turbulent love for George Dyer is visible on the canvas
Crumbling is not an instant’s act
A new exhibition revels in the intricacies and drama of architectural drawings — and the ruins of buildings they leave behind
Robert Indiana: Love is all you need
The Yorkshire Sculpture Park is an incongruously perfect backdrop for this artist of twentieth century Americana
Was postwar Britain as grey and dull as everyone thinks?
A new exhibition at the Barbican sheds light on the forgotten decade
Pissarro: paintings, prints, and papery pleasure
This exhibition shows the world of the impressionists beyond their most famous paintings
The woven woman
A new Louise Bourgeois exhibition revels in the difficult femininity of her work
Sensation painting
The many women in white at the Royal Academy are just one aspect of Whistler’s brilliance
Eric Ravilious: a talent too long ignored
Ravilious’s ethereal, understated paintings are quietly dazzling
The art of introspection
This gathering of Van Gogh’s self-portraits is as unsettling as it is impressive
Mystery of the missing bronze
A new excavation to find the third Riace statue is planned
This vision glorious
Let us allow the glory of Easter to touch our daily lives
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
Save this perfect Welsh building
The Church Institute and Churchmen’s Club at Llanfairfechan need, and deserve, to be preserved
Nicola Sturgeon and the WhatsApp Group of Secrets
Stern but lovable Scot, Professor Sturgeon, would tell us the whole truth…wouldn’t she?
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
The meaning of Navalny’s death
This tragic event illustrates the cruelty and fragility of the Kremlin
Who’s ready for the Equality Levy?
Birmingham’s bankruptcy is a portrait of Britain’s future
Free speech in free fall
As British freedoms are continually eroded, much of the liberty lobby seems to have nothing to say
Time for realpolitik in Israel
Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East should put British interests first
He’ll never let the old flag fall
Lee Anderson will never stand for insult, especially the insult of never being invited round for dinner
The dangers of digital media
By abandoning physical media, have we exposed ourselves to censorship and corporate control?
