Modern Art
Women on the edge
A feminist frame that doesn’t fit
Biting the hand that feeds them
So-called “radical” performance art is little more than a publicly-funded alliance between the art establishment and faux-rebellious poseurs
Among the deathworks
On culturing culture
The timelessness of Henry Moore
How a modernist bogeyman became an Old Master
A tawdry death imitating art
Francis Bacon’s turbulent love for George Dyer is visible on the canvas
Was postwar Britain as grey and dull as everyone thinks?
A new exhibition at the Barbican sheds light on the forgotten decade
Lover, muse, artist
The aim of this new biography is to re-establish this undeservedly overlooked artist
Art for oligarchs’ sake
Divorced from aesthetic considerations, the modern art business is a refuge for the uber-rich
A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
Marble run
Let’s give up the Elgin Marbles, but not to Athens
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
When real Rivals fought over TV
The hit adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s novel reflects the ITV franchise battles
