Melancholia, Not Modernism
Edvard Munch may have yoked new technologies together but his leitmotifs were timeless
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Latvia’s Lost World
Jean-Paul Kaufmann's A Journey to Nowhere recounts how a student love affair led him to discover Courland, the Latvian peninsula with a troubled history and elusive identity
Norman Wisdom
The Normans embellished Saxon churches but they also built their own, and there is nowhere better to admire their artistry than Herefordshire
War Games
Despite being a keen chess player, Napoleon Bonaparte was more a pawn than a king on the board
Israel Left Behind
‘The seriousness of a left-wing movement in today’s Europe can be measured by its stance towards Israel’
Jenny Saville
Jenny Saville's fascination with human flesh started as an art student when she was awarded a scholarship to attend Cincinnati University. Once there she became an habitué of the shopping malls of