artists
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Merchants of the Venice Biennale
For all its pretentiousness, the Venice Biennale still hints towards higher truths
No second coming for the arts
Labour will finish the Tories’ work of destroying the arts – only “better”
A movement to where?
What, if anything, is “right-wing” art?
The restless life of a very bourgois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Fabian fry-up
After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy
Schrödinger’s Culture War
Is it a myth or a tremendous success?
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
November Letters
Aiming for the rescue and rebuilding of liberal capitalism
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
Pornhub exposed
The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
