Art
High art
Serenhedd James heads to Burlington House for the RA’s summer show
Studio: Dubrovnik
Anthony Daniels visits the War Photo Limited gallery in Dubrovnik
The myriad Mona Lisas
How the multiple Mona Lisa copies, and their prices, testify to the longstanding fame of the painting and its mystique
Prudes against nudes
Feminist protests put a puritanical limit on the aesthetic quality of nudity
Lover, muse, artist
The aim of this new biography is to re-establish this undeservedly overlooked artist
Marble Ah.
The new Marble Arch reminds me of that Cristiano Ronaldo statue
Nero: zero or hero?
Despite everything we thought we knew, Nero may just possibly be regarded as a half-decent emperor
The perils of artivism
No space for art: how the ICA has been using public generosity to promote political activism
No place for women in art
If there’s one thing that unites elite British artists today, it’s that they’re all performatively woke or shamefully silent
Studio: The Venice Architecture Biennale
An exuberant return to the beleaguered lagoon city
Have the police criminalised being “openly Jewish”?
It is unacceptable for the police to blame the victims of potential bigotry
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
Healers who harm
Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
Don’t tell feminists what our priorities should be
We know the seriousness of the issues that affect us, thank you
Ridiculous research and irate academics (w/ Charlotte Gill)
Do we have the right to debate where our taxes are going?
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
Britain’s first postmodern election
What Galloway’s victory really tells us about Britain
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
Diversity is not our strength
The Khan Review reveals a society needlessly splintered along ethno-religious lines
