Deaccession
How not to lose your marbles
Selling the Royal Academy’s greatest treasure would be risky and morally wrong
July/August 2020: Letters to the Editor
The opportunity deaccessioning creates for activism
Beware of selling the family silver
The sale of dusty, unloved artworks offers museums a financial lifeline, but is fraught with danger
America’s licence to sell
Michael Prodger says deaccession has been given tacit approval abroad
Regency romance
Small human moments cut across the centuries
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
A real pea souper
Rivers of filth bear our merry band to the grotesque wonders of Dickensian London
Jamie Tradescant: highbrow sports journalist
Jamie’s articles are not simply a riot of historical and philosophical allusions — no, they are all about style
Soothing sounds in time of war
There are expectations going back to 1948 that musicians turn up to provide relief
Free speech freeze-up
Reactions in Britain to the attempted suppression of NatCon suggest a bleak future for freedom of speech and thought
A wealth of Irish architecture
Editorial errors do not spoil a fine work of Irish architectural history
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Britain’s oldest purpose-built synagogue faces a new, more insidious threat
Ireland has become an exporter of gender ideology
An architect of Irish trans policy has been elected Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe
