Art
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
Kimchi culture
A new gallery pursues a pungent kind of artistic and intellectual renewal
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
No Kemi, liberalism hasn’t been hacked
Badenoch’s party brought us to this point. It was no accident
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
Should we feel pity for the Pelicot accused?
To have endured pain does not excuse inflicting pain
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
Toasting a maestro
Stranded passengers emerged bewildered into the night of the living dead
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
