Art
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
The late Leonardo
The Louvre’s anniversary exhibition has been a fraught exercise from first to last
Studio: Election Artists
Michael Prodger takes a look at the artists who paint politics
How will Christian MPs shape the assisted suicide debate?
The Tory Christian is in decline, but the Labour Christian could make the difference
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
Now’s your time, House of Lords
The upper house must prove its worth by opposing the shabby Chagos Islands deal
Reject the culture of death
Darkness lies beyond the euthanasia rubicon
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
