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
The Golden Age of jockeys
Ryan Moore is most racing professionals’ idea of the best jockey in the world
The students are revolting
Far too many young people are sheltered from the real world by their university education
Mission: Possible
Captain Boring is here to moderately improve the nation
Flawed paean to a heartless auteur
A lack of empathy goes to the hollowness at the heart of so many Kubrick movies
Sein oder Nichtsein
What a pairing Hüller and Fiennes would make
Diversion, disruption and distinction
Being memorable and sticky guarantees a novel a long and healthy life
No one will believe the Conservatives on immigration
They have broken promises far too many times
The real St George’s Day
The week in fragile people and fragile porcelain
The DUP’s accidental ally
UUP failures are keeping DUP hopes alive
Ireland’s surrogacy scandal
The Irish inferiority complex grasps at any first — no matter how low
Life as a lonely quadrant voter
Who should you vote for if you lean left economically and right culturally?
