Articles By Alasdair Palmer
July/August 2018
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June 2018
The magnificent exhibition of Mary Cassatt’s work currently on show in Paris demonstrates her clearly feminine sensibility and staggering skill
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December 2017 / January 2018
An exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, raises the question of depicting violence
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July/August 2017
As Theresa May’s speechwriter, I admired her genuine, old-fashioned Conservatism. She wasn’t difficult; her aides were another matter
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May 2017
A new Rome exhibition reveals how Artemisia Gentileschi bravely reshaped her life and art
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May 2016
Exploring medieval Italian floor mosaics
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October 2015
Rembrandt Bugatti showed the very soul of his animal subjects
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May 2015
A remarkable Florentine exhibition has brought together many of the few surviving Hellenistic sculptures
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October 2014
Forgotten for hundreds of years, he transcended his time and place to become the most beloved artist of the Quattrocento
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July/August 2014
Jacopo Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino
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March 2014
A new collection of Bernard Williams’s essays and reviews serves as a reminder of the academic’s restless intelligence
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November 2012
A closed-off dark age church in Rome reveals the true majesty of an often under-appreciated Byzantine tradition
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March 2009
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
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January 2009
If ‘localism’ is to succeed, more power should be given to the people, not local government
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August 2008
Savaged by a regime that sacrificed quality for cash, the network needs to return to striking and original programmes. Can Michael Grade pull it off, or is ITV’s decline terminal?
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June 2008
Family courts are putting parents on trial for their children. Instead of helping to keep families together, these secretive tribunals are breaking them apart—often for trivial reasons
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About Alasdair Palmer
Alasdair Palmer is a writer and journalist. He has been on the staff of the Sunday Telegraph and the Home Office.
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