Forgetting History
"The sudden rise of Pegida suggests Germany hasn’t found a way to digest the idea of immigration."
Anglo-German Exchange
"Just how much Germany has changed is nowhere more visible than in the eyes of its most reluctant ally, Britain"
Kultur Shock
‘Journalists discussed the prospective disappearance of their newspapers as if they were watching their own funeral but not quite believing their eyes’
‘Obama Watching’
Andrew Roberts's US dispatches are available as an ebook
Mark Boxer
The cartoons and caricatures of "Marc".
Mary Cassatt: the feminine feminist
The magnificent exhibition of Mary Cassatt’s work currently on show in Paris demonstrates her clearly feminine sensibility and staggering skill
The Art Of Euphemism
Crofton Black and Edmund Clark's book Negative Publicity, which tracks Bush-era extraordinary renditions through photographs and redacted documents, is a compound of elegant presentation and rough stuff
Eugène Delacroix
There is, or should be, no question about his being great. But there are also so many things about Delacroix’s art that today seem off-putting, even repulsive.
Laureate of the Trenches
David Jones’s service at the front inspired an epic poem about World War I, “In Parenthesis”. Long neglected, it is ripe for rediscovery
Carol Robertson
The British abstract artist Carol Robertson has been making paintings based on geometric forms for many years but consistently returns to the circle.