Painting
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
Painting Queen Elizabeth
The painted surface of monarchy is everything
A vivid but oddly unresolved picture
This biography of Constable is but a partial portrait
We’re all living in America
Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
How to win at Chopin
Giving marks to people playing Chopin is no different from deciding on medals in gymnastics
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
Don’t forget Nicola Sturgeon’s nodding dogs
The SNP have been enabled by uncritical British media
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
The big bang
On the ecological repercussions and economic contributions of big shoots
All small talk
Dwarf uprisings, Daleks and disreputable handymen
Against gorpcore
We have to develop and embrace aesthetics that inspire the imagination
