A revival in figurative art and the changing face of portraiture

Privileged images: the photography of Jacques Henri Lartigue

How Jan van Eyck changed the trajectory of Western art

Based on the impulse to look at everything afresh, Modernist photography could not help but deliver a jumble of perspectives, on both sides of the Atlantic

Those who call Kubrick the greatest director in the history of cinema really do have a point

Barack Obama was a political superstar who overcame astronomical odds, but he was also the product of a ruthlessly professional operation

Contagious curiosity about the way consciousness works

"The Murder of Professor Schlick" brilliantly illuminates an ambitious movement in philosophy

Can the Recherche be adapted and remain Proust? And should it really be seen as therapy?

Søren Kierkegaard’s reflections on worry are useful reading for those in lockdown

The ornithologist W.H. Hudson sought wilderness in the city. It is as if he was writing for us today

Britain’s already beleaguered cinema sector has been plunged into an existential crisis. It should be the moment for all those who love film to rally to the cinematic cause

Louis de Funès may be France’s most beloved actor. The choice tells us a lot about those who love him

Having stolen a Klimt masterpiece, the Nazis could only show it if they hid the Jewish identity of its subject

A new thriller set in late-Stalinist Soviet Union has alarmed Russian authorities

Terror and transcendence in the late masterpieces of Schubert

Wagner’s comedy is sometimes accused of being antisemitic. But does the evidence stack up?

Commemorating those lost in the pandemic has not been possible. But we can mourn through music

Does the idea of the composer covertly commenting on totalitarianism improve his music?

Television in 2020 has been prescient, poignant and palliative

‘Vast swathes of the television production community stopped working overnight. Any television show involving camera crews, studio audiences, the general public, travel, or proximity of any kind, was, at best, postponed indefinitely; at worst, cancelled outright’

Hollywood lacks the wit and the will to convey the complexities of the secret world

A film about the the Holodomor’s exposure should prompt debate on the famine-denialist Walter Duranty