All over Europe traditional figurative art, particularly from the nineteenth century, is being shunted to the corners of museums — and eventually removed from view

Drunks, dames and Dahl

Pilvi Takala’s breaching experiments

Auntie has gone mad and is auctioning off the family silver

Antoine-Jean Gros: the artist behind Napoleon’s image

On the multi-pronged campaign against reality

Genuine art needs more material support

Le Brun has written a study of Britain imagined, Britain as it recently was, and of Britain becoming

Proponents of repatriation of the remarkable sculptures have shown scant regard to Nigeria’s endemic corruption and the fate of bronzes already sent back to Africa

A harried artist between the classical and the modern