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