Art
Medicalising art
Literature needs better friends
Transing Joan
She, Joan. You, hack
Wartime hallelujah
Creativity amid conflict
Dodgy deals and a suspect stele
There is an infinite number of ways of conning collectors, investors and even institutions too
Artwashing
Lisa Hilton at the Venice Biennale
Studio: Donatello at the Palazzo Strozzi
A magnificent celebration of the artist who was midwife to the birth of humanism
Fenella Jeavons: Sponsorship Facilitator
Milking the Philistines — someone’s got to do it
Beauties and the beasts
Our urge to anthropomorphise animals obscures the fact that we are all part of the same complex ecosystem
The art of the hype
Beyond its backstory, ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’ is both one of a series and an image made in part by a reproductive method
Studio: The 2022 Venice Biennale
Cecilia Alemani has produced an exceptionally intelligent and delightful Biennale
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It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
Slim down the university system to save it
It has become too bloated and too expensive
The party of retailers
Labour’s drift from its union roots reveals the party no longer knows what — or who — it is for
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Jonathan Ross’s existentialist hell
Jonathan Ross’s “crass” new TV show is surprisingly Sartrean
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws