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Why are our public art collections so afraid of selling off work?

Art

Holding patterns

Why are our public art collections so afraid of selling off work?

The job of a curator is to find, promote and collect works of art that are lasting

Julian Spalding

The genuine faker John Myatt

He once painted fakes to trick art galleries; now he paints them for wealthy customers

Adrian Brune

Barcelona rising

Graffiti in the old city is disappearing — in comes a host of new art treasures

William Newton

Spectator survey: Who is the most overrated painter?

Slavoj Žižek and James Stourton are no fans of the man presumed to be the best artist in history

The Spectator

Art

‘When a work lands the excitement is physical’: William Kentridge interviewed

The genius of the artist is that he doesn’t take himself too seriously

Mary Wakefield

Book Review
March 28, 2025
Robert Ferguson tells the story of the Norwegian resistance
Norway’s War is full of empathy for a broad range of personal reactions to the German occupation
Christian House
Film
March 27, 2025
Snow White and the seven circles of Hell
The film’s star can’t keep her progressive political views to herself
Freddy Gray
Book Review
March 27, 2025
A thrilling reassessment of the Crippen case
Story of a Murder is ingenious and utterly compelling
Lisa Hilton
Book Review
March 24, 2025
W.G. Sebald on the beauty and tedium of Austrian literature
Silent Catastrophes is the first English translation of two essay collections from 1985 and 1991
Philip Hensher
Book Review
March 24, 2025
The vagaries of scientific experiments
Csaba Szabo has seen it all
Stuart Ritchie
Music
March 24, 2025
Hans Zimmer and Friends: the next level of film music?
It is impossible not to embrace the whole crazed, ambitious and thoroughly enjoyable affair
Alexander Larman
Film
March 24, 2025
The curse of Disney’s Snow White
The mouse house has experienced some setbacks in the past few years
Toby Young
Book Review
March 21, 2025
Alice Austen revisits how Belgians responded to Nazi occupation
What really distinguishes 33 Place Brugmann is that all hindsight is laid aside
Alice Jolly
Film
March 21, 2025
The problem with Snow White
The production values are high and all the enchanted animals are cute, but where are the jokes?
Deborah Ross
Television
March 21, 2025
The Severance season two finale is of a quality rarely seen on TV
This season was more ambitious and explored its concept and drama far more deeply than the first
Ross Anderson

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