Michael Prodger
Early Draws
The British Museum is displaying some of the greatest draughtsmen of the Renaissance
Great Dane
The work of Christen Købke is relatively unknown outside his native land. More’s the pity
The Great Experimentalist
The new Henry Moore retrospective re-establishes him as a pivotal artist of his time
Making an Impression
A new exhibition in Madrid casts a rich new light on the 19th-century French masters
Conversation Stopper
Zoffany, ‘the one-eyed German’, was one of many masters of a very British sub-genre
A Macabre New Vision of Spain
The influence of religious sculpture on the Golden Age painters suddenly becomes clear
Sell-Out Show at Tate Modern
Money is the driving force behind too much contemporary art
The Young Old Master
Was Turner ancient or modern? He himself was in no doubt about his ability to compete with both
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The usual hotchpotch at the RA Summer Exhibition and some awful Americana from Charles Saatchi
Back to Nature
Three artists approach landscape in very different ways
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal