Art
Scary cute
CUTE, a new exhibition at Somerset House is a deliciously unsettling stroll down the uncanny valley
Is a guaranteed sale fair?
Auction house practices may be distorting the picture
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
The art of Caspar David Friedrich
In our brave new world of modern art, there’s a growing appetite for celebrating the mystery of the natural world
Face to face with history
Holbein at the Tudor Court brings the English Renaissance court back to vivid life
The dangers of digital media
By abandoning physical media, have we exposed ourselves to censorship and corporate control?
The human condition, in Wales
The universal and the particular sit awkwardly in this Cardiff exhibition
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
Poland after the wedding
The Polish art scene is stuck in a futile game of tit-for-tat
The imagination of Ensor
The great Belgian painter could enliven the most mundane scenes
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
How long can Ireland’s gender equality hold?
A gender divide in voting is not as clear as in other countries — but that could change
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
