Painting
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
Dazzled to death in Venice
At last, a truly world-class experience
The Turner Prize’s identity crisis
The art establishment has revived competent drawing in spite of itself
Eight women well worth meeting
“Parallel Lives” is an unsung gem of an exhibition
Bittersweet breakfast
“Discover Liotard and the Lavergne Family Breakfast” at the National Gallery
Why a great artist stopped painting
Even Dürer was probably a little surprised
When painters lose their sight
How the loss of vision can both help and hinder artists
What survives of love
A splendid exhibition explores the history of romance
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
Femcel fantasies
“The Substance” is an accidentally revealing film
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Is Donald Trump the new Hillary Clinton?
His campaign is failing to reach out to enough voters
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
