Art History
Unwavering commitment
The life and work of Alice Neel
Art with extra ideology
Not everything has to be about gender
Let there be light
Raphael’s masterful depiction of divine light owes much to Dante, who incorporated the latest
optical thinking in his visionary poetry
The dead city
Romanticism rising from the rubble
Transports de joie
En route back to childhood at the Wallace Collection
What’s behind that enigmatic smile?
The author of a new novel about the Mona Lisa explores the history of the world’s most famous painting
Fabergé’s fabulous eggs
For decades, Carl Fabergé cast his spell over Russia and beyond
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young (and old) Man
The Wallace Collection’s Frans Hals exhibition shows the artist at his best
Nifty shades of grey
The National Gallery has surpassed itself, with a little help from its friends
Getting creative with history
The promise of John-Paul Stonard’s Creation is poisoned by a revisionist agenda
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
Putting a gloss on big ideas
On the outsize influence of small magazines
The Rwanda Bill and the rule of law
Our constitutional tradition strictly separates international law from domestic law
There is nothing wrong with rules
People can put down their phones for the duration of concert
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
He’s not the messiah, he’s a transwoman
Transsexual Apostate is a disturbing book, written for disturbing times
The Conservatives should not cancel Christians
A Conservative party that demonises Christian convictions will cease to be conservative
Decolonising science
Rewritten histories of science, outdated religious shibboleths and notorious omissions
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
