Contemporary Arts
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
New work, sounding old
A disappointing new collection
A college in tune with the times
How music colleges need to adjust to the twenty-first century
How artivism captured the ICA
If the Institute of Contemporary Arts wants to be in the vanguard of “social justice” activism should it retain its charitable status?
Cancel the Turner
It looks like it was made by artists who don’t like art and chosen by judges who don’t either
Painting by numbers
Alexander Adams counts the cost of female artistic success
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
Is the law going coconuts?
The acquittal of a pro-Palestine protestor on free speech grounds should not be a one-off
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
War crimes and Western double standards
How can politicians cheer the ICC pursuing Putin but not Netanyahu?
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
