Painting
The art of experience
The great German Romantic Caspar David Friedrich deserves more attention
Slain Jane
Vanderlyn’s incendiary painting of British perfidy and indigenous brutality
How I became an art collector
An unlikely passion
Thomas Girtin: a YBA of yesteryear
At the time of his death, he had done more than Turner to show the possibilities of watercolour
Men of the cloth
Resurrecting the lost art of the painter-stainers
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
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?