Drawing Board
Masters and apprentices
Contemporary art rules the market at the 58th Venice Biennale
YiMiao Shih: Rabbrexit Means Rabbrexit
A furry farewell
The plant cure
Botany isn’t about the whimsical world of flower fairies, but clever, entrepreneurial plants that learn to deceive, or which can survive in habitats where no one wants them
Adam Dant: A wry eye on the city
Adam Dant’s detailed drawings poke fun at cosmopolitan life
Roger Wagner: Master of timeless modernism
“Roger Wagner would be a remarkable artist in any age. H His work is informed by the great tradition of Western art, yet there is nothing old-fashioned about it”
John Ruskin: The power of seeing
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Klimt/Schiele
The Royal Academy’s exhibition of Klimt and Schiele drawings from the Albertina is erotic, manic and morbid
Edward Burne-Jones
A dream of Camelot: the ethereal genius of Edward Burne-Jones
Roderic O’Conor and the moderns
The first exhibition for thirty years on Roderic O’Conor, Ireland’s post-impressionist
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal