We must resist cancel culture and defend freedom of artistic expression

A beautiful book, but a fairly orthodox biography of the Hon. Stephen “Tommy” Tomlin

What the opening of the Edo Museum of West African Art means for the potential restitution of 2,807 historical bronze artefacts

An oyster without grit

Norman Lebrecht on how Marion von Weber was both interesting and important to Mahler’s emergence

Arabella Byrne asks if the modern world still has room for artistic outlaws

Isobel Williams’s treatment of selected poems is literary charcuterie, as neat as it is naughty

Robert Thicknesse on Rossini’s extraordinary de-cluttering of the musical atmosphere

Digital art: the millennial trend

Auction houses have enjoyed a stellar pandemic, but could their online success prove a curse?