The theft of Goya’s ‘Portrait of the Duke of Wellington’ – now the subject of a feature film starring Jim Broadbent – still touches a nerve about ‘high’ culture and how it’s valued
‘This isn’t really a demand for a revolution of the cultural institution, only a reshuffle of its senior management.’ On Laura Raicovich’s ‘Culture Strike’.
Taking a hammer to Eric Gill’s sculpture ‘Prospero and Ariel’ is a sign of our cultural orthodoxy: that nothing bad or wrong or disagreeable should exist in the public realm
It’s perhaps fitting that figurative painting – historical bastion of the male artist – should be so confidently ransacked by an artist who endured an artworld that marginalised women
From a retrospective of the late performance artist Chiara Fumai to the exuberant fragility of Lynda Benglis’s sculpture, a guide to the best exhibitions around town
