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In the Frame: Some Plinth Ideas

By Tom Humberstone - 09 Aug 2013

Tom Humberstone's weekly observational comic for the New...
Mexican art at the Royal Academy of Arts: A curious artistic sampling, ignoring the elephant in the room

By Michael Prodger - 06 Aug 2013

Mexico: a Revolution in Art a the Royal Academy fails to show the...
Transition: Contested landscapes in South Africa

By New Statesman - 02 Aug 2013

A photography essay including work by Philippe Chancel, Raphaël...
A stitch in time

By Alexander McCall Smith - 01 Aug 2013

Telling the story of Scotland.
In the Frame: Support

By Tom Humberstone - 26 Jul 2013

Tom Humberstone's weekly observational comic for the New...
Tear down this wall: Khaled Jarrar at the Ayyam Gallery

By Aisha Gani - 23 Jul 2013

Khaled Jarrar has made playful sculptures from fragments chipped...

Comics review: If you like space oddities, Prophet is for you

By Cara Ellison - 10 Aug 2013

Prophet volumes 1 & 2 by Brandon Graham et al is like being...
In The Critics this week

By Bithia Large - 08 Aug 2013

David Runciman on Kennedy's last 100 days, Rachel Bowlby on the...
The New York Review Abroad: A breathless journey around disparate worlds

By Tara Isabella Burton - 07 Aug 2013

Tara Isabella Burton reviews a a hefty and often harrowing...
Fiction Uncovered 2013 is no literary John Peel sessions

By Jonathan McAloon - 07 Aug 2013

Do we need yet another self-serving literary prize list? The...
Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld: A modern American fable about the danger of tempting fate

By Sarah Churchwell - 06 Aug 2013

In her latest novel, Curtis Sittenfeld depicts the tedium of...
The End of Night by Paul Bogard: Are naturally dark skies really an inalienable human right?

By Tom Fort - 06 Aug 2013

Bogard's tirade against the loss of natural darkness to synthetic...

Schubertiade: The hills are alive in Schwarzenberg

By Geoffrey Wheatcroft - 07 Aug 2013

The annual Schubertiade festival is held annual to celebrate the...
Review: Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812

By Tara Isabella Burton - 06 Aug 2013

A musical adaptation of War and Peace could easily have...
Akala: "Hip-hop is a modern day minstrel show"

By Joe Collin - 06 Aug 2013

Akala’s "Hip-Hop History Live": an exploration of black history...
The Muteli Monologues: feminism and activism converge in Georgian theatre

By Tara Isabella Burton - 29 Jul 2013

The first complete Georgian-language production of Eve Ensler's...
Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation is every inch a modern classic

By Matt Trueman - 28 Jul 2013

A wise first choice for the Royal Court's new artistic director...
Mick Jagger turns 70 today – which begs the question, where have all the front men gone?

By Joe Collin - 26 Jul 2013

Whatever happened to the charismatic, effeminate, mysterious...

The needs that make us human: "To love, to be loved, to be accepted, and to be respected"

By Alison Lapper - 06 Aug 2013

Artist Alison Lapper was born without arms and was denied the...
On narcissim: the mirror and the self

By Rachel Cusk - 03 Aug 2013

People from Tiger Woods to the Obamas are routinely denounced for...
In praise of pessimism

By Will Self - 29 Jul 2013

Who needs the politics and mindset of “jam tomorrow”, asks Will...
Katie Roiphe interview: "There is a lot of unexamined feminist outrage against other women"

By Helen Lewis - 25 Jul 2013

Helen Lewis talks to Katie Roiphe, columnist and author, most...
Gods and monsters

By P D James - 25 Jul 2013

The ability to ask the question "What makes us human?" is what...
Generation Peak-Teen

By Danny Dorling - 25 Jul 2013

The global peak year for births was 1990. Now the number of...