Art Gallery
The Venice Art Biennale
The overall tone is rather bloodless, smug and muted where one might hope for exhilaration
Word pictures at a gallery
Paintings are appreciated best when there are few people around to spoil the view
First impressions
The first Impressionist exhibition was no obscure bit of posturing, but artistic sedition
The decline of beauty
Why has the concept been rejected by the art world?
Thoughtful delicacy and austere introspection
An exhibition of the art of Gwen John secures her legacy
Women’s anger and women’s ambiguities
A new exhibition offers interesting, if sometimes confusing, perspectives on women in revolt
The sacred and the profane
Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum
The art of hospitality
Restaurants should be about more than just the food
So close, so far
Pilvi Takala’s breaching experiments
Complexity on canvas
Women abstract artists step out of the shadows
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Is the law going coconuts?
The acquittal of a pro-Palestine protestor on free speech grounds should not be a one-off
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
A defensive concern under the right conditions can morph into a warrant for brutal expansionism
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language
Marriage matters
We have to fix the foundations of the family
In defence of the stiff upper lip
Emotional reserve in public does not mean neglecting our interior lives, it means being serious about them
Max Grubb
Resentful Academic
