Art
This was a bad start to the week
More work for the BBC pronunciation unit
So many art fairs, so little time
On the forums that bring together dealer and buyer
The Turner Prize’s identity crisis
The art establishment has revived competent drawing in spite of itself
AI and the great data robbery
Silicon Valley has stolen huge amounts of original material in order to “train” its GPT models
What is culture anyway?
Protecting and renewing culture demands a fuller understanding of its nature and its purposes
The brighter side of German Expressionism
The expressionists breathed fresh life into familiar subjects
Merchants of the Venice Biennale
For all its pretentiousness, the Venice Biennale still hints towards higher truths
Making art of the Holocaust
As dramatic opera, The Passenger inhabits a grey zone of guard–prisoner relations
Make architecture art again
Attractive architecture should draw from the past while looking to the future
We are the cultural Norns
Here, at last, is a mind-expanding podcast that is the antidote to everything the wretched Arts Council stands for