Art

Arts issues are crucial, but do the main parties have anything of substance to say about them?

The cartoons and caricatures of “Marc”.

“The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has done much harm and little good to the state of British arts.”

We may sneer at the Victorian aesthetes, but is the sloppier, more cynical art of today any healthier?

A new exhibition tries to resurrect the reputation of Sir Joshua Reynolds

The British abstract artist Carol Robertson has been making paintings based on geometric forms for many years but consistently returns to the circle. In her current London exhibition, Circular Stories, the paintings are entirely based on circular motifs. Of these she says:

The circle is the purest and most archetypal geometric form. It has a universal resonance, so is frequently found in art, architecture and ritual. It’s an evocation of the universe and the heavens, the journey inward or outward to the centre: a symbol of wholeness, completion and infinity, the unbroken line with no beginning or end, the eternal cycle.

When the big shows are overrun by the holiday hordes, seize the moment to savour minority tastes

The ambition of the British Museum’s Germany: Memories of a Nation ultimately exceeds its reach

A look at the artist’s first international solo exhibition

Why do so many rich capitalists have a penchant for collecting anti-capitalist art?