Art
Sex and violence: Titian’s Metamorphoses
The National Gallery are reopening their headline 2020 exhibition on 8th July
Mystery of the tainted cache
The Gurlitt affair looked as if it might be unpicked but it has proved intractable
Unwelcome rise of a truly awful artist
Jacob Willer examines the extravagant claims made about an Italian painter hailed as the saviour of revivalism
Sebastian Horsley: equal parts Byronic dandy, Dickensian grotesque and Wildean poseur
Alexander Larman remembers his time with the decadent author, Sebastian Horsley, 10 years after his death
How artivism captured the ICA
If the Institute of Contemporary Arts wants to be in the vanguard of “social justice” activism should it retain its charitable status?
Beware of selling the family silver
The sale of dusty, unloved artworks offers museums a financial lifeline, but is fraught with danger
America’s licence to sell
Michael Prodger says deaccession has been given tacit approval abroad
Belgian light amid the gloom
The work of two fine artists is gaining belated and well-deserved recognition
Love and death in Vienna
Spanish flu killed Schiele and Klimt. Their art sensed the brevity of life and the doom of their society
What does ‘decolonising the curriculum’ mean?
And what is oligarch money doing to the art world?