Drawing Board
The writing on the walls
“With Brexit, Covid and the climate crisis, posters have suddenly returned to our streets as public markers of motivation and despair”
Focusing on the female gaze
The pioneering women who, over more than 150 years, embraced photography — a medium for free-spirited women who wanted to chart their own course
The crowds and the emptiness
“In the towns and cities of northern Italy the streets have a heavy impasto of history, a composition in which everyone lives. The landscape is layered with reinvention”
A breath of fresh paint
A revival in figurative art and the changing face of portraiture
A boy’s own adventure
Privileged images: the photography of Jacques Henri Lartigue
Feast and Fast: The art of food in Europe
A remarkable and delectable exhibition at the Fitzwilliam
Golden years: Pieter de Hooch in Delft
The Delft thunderclap opened new visions, especially for Pieter de Hooch
Magnum Photos: Sharp shadows
70 years of bravery, frailty, comedy and tragedy, immortalised on streets, railways, beaches and harbours
Emma Sergeant: Studies in untruth
Revealing how portraiture scares subjects who would prefer to be photo-shopped
The Brexit crunch approaches
Thorny issues remain unresolved as the transition period comes to a close. Yet the hurdles to a deal are not insurmountable
Meritocracy makes a new ruling class
Innovation has often come from hard work by unlettered people. But young progressives now seem to treat education as a proxy for virtue
Some black lives matter more than others
Black Lives Matter misses the point—we should highlight the progress we have made, not split society and trap ourselves in victimhood