Art
Orson Welles and Lockdown’s Radio Renaissance
I’m listening to art made by dead people rather than DIY lockdown productions
How I discovered Art and Architecture
Daniel Johnson reflects on the great discoveries of his youth
How the Arts Council abandoned England
The Arts Council are using the pandemic to reward their cronies rather than saving 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
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
In a manor of shrieking
One haunted house has an infamy above all others: McKamey Manor, in the USA
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
Let’s start a cat flap
Why do cute predators get a pass from conservationists?
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
The Lost Gardens of London
The war between city and greenery is eternal; the concrete and asphalt seeks open land to engulf
