The Venice Biennale and the society of the spectacle
The 2026 Venice Biennale explores the vexed relationship between witnessing a broken world and being complicit in it
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We should expect some kind of popular anti-tech revolt
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A PSA to art thieves: paintings are not worth stealing
The Renoir heist proves that art crime is merely transactional
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Decoding the Bayeux Tapestry
The Tapestry forms a bande dessinée of the first great Anglo-French crisis
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Moore of England
Forty years after Henry Moore’s death, what is left of the country that made, celebrated, and then forgot him?
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The late harvest of John Constable
On the 250th anniversary of his birth, the painter’s visions of the countryside remain the quintessential idea of England
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Photographing the world’s “young, rebellious scum”
Ed van der Elsken’s camera found humour and humanity where others saw only outsiders
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Agnes Martin’s paintings can save you
The painter was a confusing character who once tried “not to talk for three years”
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