Contemporary Arts
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
In praise of the viola
Cantabile: Anthems for viola (Delphian)
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws
A wealth of Irish architecture
Editorial errors do not spoil a fine work of Irish architectural history
Smartphones are not the source of all social ills
Phones and social media are easy scapegoats for our all too human follies
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
Matthew Parris and the illusion of independence
Those in flight from human dependency are the ones who cannot be realistic
Don’t forget Nicola Sturgeon’s nodding dogs
The SNP have been enabled by uncritical British media
The right must learn from modern art
Marcel Duchamp’s rule-breaking provides real lessons for the right
