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
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
