Faded Master Of Experimentation
A new exhibition tries to resurrect the reputation of Sir Joshua Reynolds
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Take a Bow
The hostility in Sino-Japanese relations
The Civilised Connoisseur
With his inherited wealth Kenneth Clark amassed an art collection that reads like a museum catalogue
Bring On the Bugs
Is one solution to our current financial quagmire to chow-down on creepy-crawlies?
Blown Up in Bin Laden Country
Is Pakistani intelligence allowing the country’s tribal areas to become a Taliban stronghold? What can the West do about it? The moment the bomb exploded, our Frontier Corps driver slammed on the
China’s Rural Nightmare
As the global economic crisis hits home, Beijing faces what the country’s rulers have always feared – a peasants’ revolt The waves from the subprime disaster have reached China, where the bottom
Orientalism Comes Out From Under the Shadows
A thoughtful exhibition at Tate Britain this summer lifts the veil of moral theory from Orientalist painting