Art
No art too good for the workers
Fernand Léger drew from popular entertainment and working life to make Cubism less inaccessible
The master of human vanity
The new Pieter Bruegel exhibition in Vienna really is a once-in-a-lifetime artistic experience
The link between art and heart
A new Barbican exhibition explores how two were often better than one in the creative process
Lasting legacy of an English idealist
Samuel Courtauld’s Impressionist paintings can now be seen beside those he bought for the nation
An Exhibition of and for the nation
The Royal Academy’s summer bunfight has long ceased to be the place for new waves to emerge
Essex man who left his mark
Edward Bawden’s versatility has masked his huge contribution to 20th-century British art
The unknown Americans
US artists of the interwar years can at last be appreciated in a revealing Oxford exhibition
The man who set himself in stone
Murillo has gone out of fashion but an exhibition of his portraits may help to restore his reputation
The eye homes in — he homes out
Andreas Gursky’s disquieting yet sublime photographs form the first show at the refurbished Hayward
Nifty shades of grey
A new exhibition at the National Gallery displays an extraordinary range of monochrome works
The West slumbers as its enemies run amok
Profound weaknesses leave us open to political warfare from Russia and China—weaknesses which they are ruthlessly exploiting
Routed by liberalism
How usury killed Christendom
Offences and defences
‘Standpoint is, as it has always been, a magazine for small-c conservatives and small-l liberals. But it is also for small-s socialists and small-g greens, and for those who resist pigeonholing on principle’