Art
The Critic Interview: Grayson Perry
Richard Brooks accompanies the Turner Prize-winning artist around his new show and explores his troubled pre-therapy youth
True Feminism has Never Been Tried, Comrade
Alexander Adams reviews Women Can’t Paint by Helen Gørrill
Fairs and fair dealing
Thomas Woodham-Smith listens with caution
The gender discount
Women may now account for 64 per cent of fine arts graduates in Britain but research shows the old values remain entrenched, says Michael Prodger
The real Amis?
X.Trapnel on the book world’s latest guessing game
Is it art – or a trigger warning?
Once, the establishment might have left the unsavoury implications to the viewer’s own intelligence
Ring up the new
The most expensive post-war work sold last year fetched just over $91 million. The most expensive Old Master sold for $21.5 million
Banksy and the triumph of banality
How the shallow culture warrior hoodwinked a generation
To catch a thief
Is a super-rich collector having works stolen to order?
The Critic’s Perpetual Drinking Calendar
Full of events and individuals worthy of toasting for every day of the year
Just show me the money
A body that collects authors’ revenues is going off-book and asking about their gender
Are you there God? It’s me, Farage
Nigel Farage bares his soul, but not before he buries his enemies
Children of the apocalypse
When you tell young people that the end of the world is coming, what do you expect them to do?
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
Champagne in the membrane
Alcohol is not a major risk factor for dementia
Big town life
Force for progress, loyalist fortress, or den of iniquity — the English town has been all of these, and more
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
Who hears the voiceless?
Leaving unborn children without legal protections would be an ethical disgrace
Lebanonisation in the UK
Sectarianism, crackdowns and ethnic tension are becoming the new normal in the UK
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
