Art
Research and rescue
The Falkland Islands bids farewell to the RSS James Clark Ross and a Marylebone gallery hosts a virtual exhibition of Antarctic photographs
Monuments to self-expression
Serenhedd James finds folly and ruin frequently go together in Rory Fraser’s new release: Follies
Bohemia, SW3
Barry Turner delves into an illuminating and entertaining insight into Bohemian life in the fast lane
The mystery of the folded dragon
Michael Prodger recounts the tale of Hergé’s drawing for the cover of the Tintin instalment: The Blue Lotus
Studio: Drawing US Presidents
John Springs on illustrating US Presidents throughout his career
Why Damien Hirst is the perfect artist for the pandemic
Damien Hirst’s work encapsulates the sterility, isolation and obsession with death of these times, says Alys Denby
The story of Scottish art
The Story of Scottish Art is not a scholarly work of art history; it gives an easy-to-read account of artists’ lives with a faintly awestruck tone
The unsurprising rise of AI art
Whether we like it or not, the intrusion of AI into the domain of human creativity is going very quickly to become a fixture of our lives
High priestess of a new morality
At times Portrait of a Muse feels like a Julian Fellowes soap opera where we see this woman of extraordinary vivacity making great men go weak at the knees
A question of taste
Rex Whistler’s Tate mural should be seen more as an ironic Rococo fantasy than the work of a racist