Galleries
Total eclipse of the art?
Activistic artists and curators are making art a niche political endeavour
Kimchi culture
A new gallery pursues a pungent kind of artistic and intellectual renewal
Art as collateral
Making art mean something again
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
A novel collector
The legacy left by art collector and novelist Hugh Walpole
Declining figures
British museums and galleries have yet to recover from Covid.
The poor relation of the art world
All over Europe traditional figurative art, particularly from the nineteenth century, is being shunted to the corners of museums — and eventually removed from view
Today’s rubbish, tomorrow’s artefact
How museums are curating the coronavirus pandemic
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
A worthy but deeply flawed attack on woke
A distinct lack of charity when evaluating the motivations and goals of others
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
