The multiple ‘Mona Lisa’ problem
“It’s junk, a wind-up, it lacks the soul of Leonardo.”
Features Archives: 01/2024
Was the Bayeux Tapestry the first-ever comic?
“Like a strip cartoon, racy, emphatic, colourful, with a good deal of blood and thunder.”
The “anti-society cult” backing the Shen Yun dance troupe
Shen Yun are described as everything from a dance troupe or death cult.
Robert Rauschenberg’s goat-stuffed “combines”
“A stuffed goat is special in the way that a stuffed goat is special.”
The overlooked impact of Berthe Morisot
“I don’t think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal, and that’s all I would have asked for.”
‘Guernica’: Pablo Picasso’s generational protest painting
“I clearly express my abhorrence of the military caste which has sunk Spain in an ocean of pain and death.”
The towering presence of brutalist architecture
A brief history of the Brutalist “cult of ugliness”.
