Art
The dissident rebels of the art world
We must resist cancel culture and defend freedom of artistic expression
Sculptor, wrecker and seducer
A beautiful book, but a fairly orthodox biography of the Hon. Stephen “Tommy” Tomlin
Benin’s bronze ambassadors
What the opening of the Edo Museum of West African Art means for the potential restitution of 2,807 historical bronze artefacts
David Hockney: An oyster without grit
An oyster without grit
Notes on a doomed affair
Norman Lebrecht on how Marion von Weber was both interesting and important to Mahler’s emergence
The Lost Bohemians
Arabella Byrne asks if the modern world still has room for artistic outlaws
Cheeky blinder
Isobel Williams’s treatment of selected poems is literary charcuterie, as neat as it is naughty
Odes to joy
Robert Thicknesse on Rossini’s extraordinary de-cluttering of the musical atmosphere
Crypto-art for cryptomillions
Digital art: the millennial trend
The lockdown boom in an empty room
Auction houses have enjoyed a stellar pandemic, but could their online success prove a curse?
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
What is academia without scholarship?
Research is an essential feature of academic life
A masterpiece in miniature
Taneyev, Schumann: Piano quintets (Signum)
Our illiberal Terrorism Act
People should be censured for their actions and not for their beliefs
Restoring sanity takes time
So many people have built their professional lives around gender insanity
Unpacking neurodivergence and gender identity
Neurodivergent teenagers are in danger of having their struggles miscategorised
A wilting wallflower
A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West
Make architecture art again
Attractive architecture should draw from the past while looking to the future
When classicists attack classics
Sanskrit isn’t the only ancient language to be affected by academic imperialism
Beethoven: Nine symphonies+ (Decca)
This Beethoven gift set is not for Christmas. It is for life
Matthew Parris and the illusion of independence
Those in flight from human dependency are the ones who cannot be realistic
