Art
Faces that Don’t Quite Fit
When it came to painting portraits, Constable struggled to emulate his mastery of landscape
Lovelorn Landscape
Constable in Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter by Martin Gayford
Il Miglior Fabbro
Five hundred years after his birth, Andrea Palladio continues to influence architecture
A Blind Eye to Stalin
Soviet Constructivism is coming to town in the (emotionless) shape of an exhibition at Tate Britain
Who Are the Masters Now?
Two Paris exhibitions leave Mantegna’s reputation enhanced but Picasso’s diminished
From Baubles to Babel
The year the contemporary art juggernaut ground to a halt
The Limits of Liberty
We should demand more cultural regulation to help us to focus on the best thoughts and words
Fundamentally Flawed
A young artist receives death threats from Islamic extremists, despite being a devout Muslim herself
A Cooler Shade of Red
A new museum exhibition of Cold War art leaves the nastiness of the communist system completely unacknowledged
In Search of Babylon
A British Museum exhibition will mix ancient artefacts with work inspired by the city of legend
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