Art
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
Airline Maps: A century of art and design
An enjoyable visual book that acts as a history of aviation
Can bad people be good artists?
The moral standards of creative giants
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
A bloodless coup in Bucharest
How can elections be cancelled without substantive reasons even being presented?
Leader of the year™
Might match-fixing explain Kemi Badenoch’s questions at PMQs?
The futility of safeguards for assisted suicide
Lessons from Belgium and the Netherlands
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
After Covid
English towns have a long road to economic recovery
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
