Art
Art is not all about you
It is not elitist to expect audiences to be quiet
The art world is eating itself
A culture of censorship has devolved into rival attempts at cancellation
Does the Turner Prize still matter?
This year’s exhibition offers a diversity of style if not of ideology
What happened to the working class intellectual
Young people are not being encouraged or inspired
The cathedral and the museum
With declining attendances and a neglect of their core mission, churches and art galleries have much in common
Delilah Sampson: Conceptual artist
Spectacular fraud, beguiling hippy or both?
A novel collector
The legacy left by art collector and novelist Hugh Walpole
The children of Terezín
The human will triumph over the technological in culture
Tove Jansson’s humane vision
A major Paris exhibition highlights timeless themes of the Finnish artist’s ouvre
Frans Hals’ sense of fun
A delightful display of portraiture at the National Gallery
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
Go west
Rishi has been a bit down lately
It’s time to transition babies
Even in the womb, many foetuses can sense their own trans identity
Bring back the Law Lords
Tony Blair’s introduction of a US-style Supreme Court has served to undermine the supremacy of Parliament
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
The Boy who never grew old
Eric Ravilious’s ethereal watercolours chime with today’s sensibilities
Overmedicalisation is harming Generation Z
Zoomers are fragile because they have been told they are
The fixtures that forged a nation
Even if you loathed sport, you could enjoy this book — which is why it can both delight and frustrate
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
