Painting
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
The sacred and the profane
Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum
A colossus unjustly ignored
Britain has never warmed to Rubens, whose finest works can be seen in Antwerp
Mobilisation
Christ, humanity and war
The subsidy squeeze
Schemes such as HS2 cost billions of pounds while reducing UK productivity
Peers but not equals
Ferdinand Ries: Symphonies 1&2 (Ondine); Franz Clement: Solo violin works (Naxos)
Remember the Armenians
The West has turned its back on the world’s oldest Christian state
Of course we need opera
Click-hungry editors should stop enabling philistinism
Lockdowns and the problem with science-based policy
Evidence in politics is great, but what evidence and to what ends?
Don’t ask WhatsApp
Millions of messages, and sick of it
The future of higher education
How can universities be more efficient and effective?
The Venice Art Biennale
The overall tone is rather bloodless, smug and muted where one might hope for exhilaration
Confidently Cantonese
Chowing down in the Royal China
Communitarianism hits the ballot box
The local elections provided a glimpse of a future where voting is divided by ethnicity
Red dawn
Following the locals, a shattered Conservative party will need to get used to losing
