The Hounding of M. F. Husain
India's greatest living artist has been forced out of his home country by Hindu sectarian extremists
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
The New South Sea Bubble
Auction houses are reporting records being broken—even though the works on sale are quite mundane
DIY Stravinsky
The future of art isn't determined by raw cash, as some lamenting the Coalition's Arts cuts dramatically make out
Wanted: A Keynesian Vision for the Arts
The Arts Council started with a tiny budget and a mandate to lift the postwar gloom. Now this meddlesome quango has lost its way and its chair, Liz Forgan, must go
An Eye for the Ladies
Stendhal loved Lawrence, Thackeray thought his work tawdry. An NPG exhibition gives us a chance to decide
The Serpent in His Own Eden
Paul Gauguin forged the myth of himself as a South Seas primitive — but his painting was not just a pose
Poetry in Motion
Photographic pioneer, inventor and killer, Eadweard Muybridge was a very complex character indeed
A Dangerous Artist to Know
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane by Andrew Graham-Dixon
High-Stake Fakes
If you think that painting hanging in a dark corner of your house is worthless, think again
Britain is in Rude Health
From Hogarth to Spitting Image, nothing defines our national identity better than comic art
Early Draws
The British Museum is displaying some of the greatest draughtsmen of the Renaissance
Great Dane
The work of Christen Købke is relatively unknown outside his native land. More's the pity