Art Galleries
The Conservatives can still reform our cultural institutions
The Tories should cut the Blob down to size before Keir Starmer comes to power
Behind the scenes at the museums
The exhibits missing from the globe’s galleries and museums
The poor relation of the art world
All over Europe traditional figurative art, particularly from the nineteenth century, is being shunted to the corners of museums — and eventually removed from view
How to lose a culture war
Or a fast march through the institutions
Women on the edge
A feminist frame that doesn’t fit
Getting the picture in 2021
From cryptocurrency to pandemic plagued exhibitions, it’s been an eventful year in art
Prudes against nudes
Feminist protests put a puritanical limit on the aesthetic quality of nudity
Art Attack
Does culture have a future in the post-lockdown world?
Renewing academia
The Centre for Heterodox Social Science represents a positive alternative to a field increasingly dominated by progressive ideology
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
The problem with puberty blockers
Ministers must step in to prevent the NHS from experimenting on children
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
Britain’s first postmodern election
What Galloway’s victory really tells us about Britain
A great conductor leaves the stage
No conductor from China or Japan ever commanded world orchestras before Seiji Ozawa, and none has since matched his impact
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
Italian lessons
On matching the sauce to the pasta
A “lost” novel better left unfound
We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
