Michael Prodger

Michael Prodger is associate editor at the New Statesman.

How Sensation turned British art into big business

Twenty-five years ago, the Charles Saatchi-backed exhibition heralded a new era – one in which profit would reign supreme.

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By Jeremy Cliffe, Oscar Williams, Christiana Bishop and Michael Prodger

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By Alona Ferber, Megan Gibson, Michael Prodger and Sarah Dawood

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The British artist used his design skills to transform both battleships and railway posters.

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Also featuring Cleopatra’s Daughter by Jane Draycott and A Line in the World by Dorthe Nors.

By Pippa Bailey, Michael Prodger, India Bourke and Ellen Peirson-Hagger

The 17th-century Dutch artist saw etching as a way to conjure strange imaginary realms.

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Also featuring Julia Voss’s biography of Hilma af Klint and Living Together by Mim Skinner.

By Anoosh Chakelian, Barney Horner, Ellen Peirson-Hagger and Michael Prodger

The artist’s renderings of women’s hair depict both the chic and the suggestive.

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Also featuring Susan L Shirk on China under Xi Jinping and Ryan Gingeras on the Ottoman Empire.

By Katie Stallard, Michael Prodger, Christiana Bishop and Matthew Gilley

Also featuring No Choice: Becca Andrews on the right to abortion, and Servants of the Damned by David Enrich.

By Pippa Bailey, Megan Gibson, Oscar Williams and Michael Prodger

A new exhibition at the Tate Modern shows how a painter condemned in his own time as a barbarian…

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