A collection of 69 posts
Ian Penman has published an eccentric new book about Erik Satie, a French surrealist composer and celebratory nuisance with a tiny oeuvre and massive influence.
Classical music was one of the first fields to impose the self-censorship that now pervades so many areas of intellectual and cultural life.
A tribute to David Lynch (1946–2025).
Our experience of the world is increasingly mediated by digital technology. This is stripping us of our sense that the physical landscape is infused with meaning.
The religious urge is born into nearly every child. And when we do not inherit a belief system, we build our own temples.
An Artist's Response to James Kierstead’s “The Elgin Marbles: Playing for Keeps"
A new exhibition in LA offers a rare chance to enjoy still photography by one of the world’s most talented cinematographers.
There is a new contender for the most effective weapon in the propaganda wars: photorealistic, generative AI art.
An interview with "anti-woke" artist Melody Rachel.
How the bronze crucifix in the Art Gallery of Ontario got from seventeenth-century Rome to twenty-first century Toronto is an intriguing tale, but it is a narrative filled with gaps.
A historic diary in pictures, which just happens to belong to Sir Paul McCartney.
Preaching the gospel of Indigenization and decolonization, administrators are overruling their own art experts.
Few novels become institutions, to have departments rigged up around them, whole constituencies and spheres of scholarship, as works of lifelong study, fascination and confusion. Ulysses, whose publication centenary will be observed on February 2nd, is one such book. Like Marx’s Kapital, Joyce’s door-stopping opus has kept academics
Anime offers vividly coloured worlds, in which giant-eyed kids and anthropomorphized animals conduct heroic journeys against beautifully detailed backdrops.
Explore identity and the self in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, showing how the prince’s inner conflict mirrors modern questions of authenticity and role.