Poland after the wedding
The Polish art scene is stuck in a futile game of tit-for-tat
The decline of beauty
Why has the concept been rejected by the art world?
No second coming for the arts
Labour will finish the Tories’ work of destroying the arts – only “better”
The art world is eating itself
A culture of censorship has devolved into rival attempts at cancellation
Does the Turner Prize still matter?
This year’s exhibition offers a diversity of style if not of ideology
The cathedral and the museum
With declining attendances and a neglect of their core mission, churches and art galleries have much in common
Forever stuck in the nineties
Sarah Lucas and the sexual revolution that wasn’t
The culture war has become the culture
On the discourse and the subject
Growth, grift and speculation
What can art tell us about economics?
In a world without God, what does suicide mean?
When society no longer sees the taking of one’s own life as a sin, it is unclear who should be responsible for attempting to prevent such deaths
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
From austerity to the Swinging Sixties
Two books by David Kirby and Robyn Hitchcock are the equivalent of two albums’ worth of their authors’ holiday snaps
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Crossroads of history
Cyprus is an island of contradictions, and the more we learn about it, the more paradoxical it becomes
Indulgent Italian treats
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete string quartets (Naxos)
Playing the long game
Rishi Sunak misjudged the electorate by prioritising tax cuts over the country’s future
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
