Art
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
Civilising Servants
Art had hitherto been a free market, subject to the vagaries of public taste and the whims of private patronage. Then in the 1830s and 1840s parliament energetically went about bringing order, system and supervision to the realm of art. The question is: why?
An End to the Myth of the Tortured Soul
What was Van Gogh really like? A new exhibition brings us closer to the truth
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
Genius at Work
Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times by William E. Wallace
A Good Look at Logic
Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitrou
Sell-Out Show at Tate Modern
Money is the driving force behind too much contemporary art
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