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Denis Joe
Time to end UK art’s dependency culture
State funding of the arts does not help creativity; it suffocates it with policymaking imperatives.
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| Wednesday 10 April 2013 |
Tiffany Jenkins
A perverted
view of art
It was daft of the Tate to remove Graham Ovenden’s paintings after his indecent assault conviction.
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| Monday 4 February 2013 |
Tiffany Jenkins
How to judge art: a beginner’s guide
Never mind the relativistic idea that all art has value - here's how to distinguish the great from the good.
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| Wednesday 3 October 2012 |
Ed Barrett
A splendid time is still guaranteed for all…
ESSAY: As the Beatles’ back catalogue is reissued, Ed Barrett salutes the world’s most brilliant, inventive and humorous pop group.
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| Thursday 31 May 2012 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Why all the fuss over Fifty Shades?
Feminists claim that a saucy trilogy of books is debasing female readers – which just goes to show how little they think of other women.
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| Wednesday 30 May 2012 |
Graham Barnfield
The stupid cuts at the BBFC
Film classifiers have told Ken Loach to cut c-words from his new movie, in case the ‘wrong’ people hear them.
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| Tuesday 29 May 2012 |
Sharmini Brookes
We must be free to mock Jacob Zuma
Sharmini Brookes reports from South Africa on the storm caused by a painting of the president’s penis.
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| Thursday 29 March 2012 |
Tiffany Jenkins
A Scottish license to kill culture
Bureaucrats north of the border seem to be on a mission to bleed all the spontaneity out of Scotland's thriving cultural scene.
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| Friday 2 March 2012 |
Tim Black
In defence of the Luddites
200 years after Lord Byron’s tub-thumping speech about the Luddites, let us distinguish those radicals from today’s eco-miserabilists.
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| Monday 16 January 2012 |
Manick Govinda
Licensed to censor performance art
By treating adults like children, the 2003 Licensing Act is being used to undermine the freedom of both artists and audiences.
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| Thursday 1 December 2011 |
Sarah Boyes
This project should have set alarm bells ringing
Get as many Brits as possible to ring bells for the Olympic Games? Has the cultural establishment gone cuckoo?
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| Thursday 17 November 2011 |
Angus Kennedy
Leonardo da Vinci: a curious humanist
The National’s blockbuster show of the Renaissance master’s paintings is a great tribute to human genius and creativity.
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| Thursday 17 November 2011 |
Tiffany Jenkins
Close the doors on The Public
A Midlands arts centre offers a cautionary tale of what happens when social policy trumps artistic content.
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| Tuesday 18 October 2011 |
Tim Black
Booker Prize: trusting the public would be novel
While literary types have arid debates about ‘readability’, the rest of us seem excluded from the conversation.
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| Tuesday 5 July 2011 |
Tiffany Jenkins
Culture: it’s not the economy, stupid!
Plans to get UK cultural institutions to measure the economic value of art are both philistine and futile.
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| Tuesday 28 June 2011 |
Jan Bowman
The barbarians within the arts establishment
The drive to use art to change people’s behaviour is as contemptuous of us as it is of culture.
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| Thursday 21 April 2011 |
Tim Black
The art of pissing Christians off
By attacking Andres Serrano’s artwork ‘Immersion (Piss Christ)’, French Christian fundamentalists play into the artist’s hands.
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| Monday 28 February 2011 |
Dolan Cummings
‘The artist formerly known as global warming’
Two new plays show that climate change is better understood as a moral issue rather than a scientific one.
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| Wednesday 9 February 2011 |
Tim Black
Liberal snobbery moves into ‘top gear’
The fuss over a joke about Mexican cars shows how the elite’s disdain for Jeremy Clarkson fans has turned nasty.
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| Wednesday 22 December 2010 |
Neil Davenport
Another year of mocking the masses
The TV-viewing hordes are said to have no taste, but it’s Oxbridge graduates who come up with rubbish shows.
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