The Critics

Being the girl in the green jumper

Cyril Mann’s muse, Renske Mann, rescues the artist from forgotten obscurity

Stop the Wark Coalition

BBC Radio has lost its purpose

Music’s moral conscience

The violinist Gidon Kremer stands brilliantly apart from the rest of the music world

Art as resistance

This Belarusian play at the Barbican is timely and urgent

Kino Kyiv

What to watch inform yourself about the rich Ukrainian cinematic tradition

Smoke Signals

How a song can drift across a life

Modern technology meets the sixteenth century

For a limited time, the wonders of Lombardy are in the National Gallery

Gone West

What happened to Kanye?

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