Drawing Board
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
Masters and apprentices
Contemporary art rules the market at the 58th Venice Biennale
YiMiao Shih: Rabbrexit Means Rabbrexit
A furry farewell
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?