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Philip Hoffman is Founder and CEO of the Fine Art Group, which focusses on art advisory, investment, and philanthropy. At 33 he became...

Rebecca Salter is a painter. She is President of the Royal Academy of Arts, the first woman in the role. She has a strong interest in...

I. The case of George Gavriel   A recent incident in Cyprus re-ignited the debate about the limits of artistic freedom. George Gavriel, a...

The below is adapted from Fakir Aijazuddin's 2021 book Imperial Curiosity: Early Views of Pakistan, 1845-1906 . Introduction   The...

The recent upsurge of interest in the history of the British Empire has produced a wealth of literature that often presents empire and...

On 9 April 2003, in the immediate aftermath of the fall of Baghdad, in the first month of the invasion of Iraq, a crowd assembled in...

SCENE. Manhattan. Street with jazz club and apartment building on a muggy late summer evening.   The tired leaves on the trees are damp...

Is a judge more like an artist or a scientist? This seems to be a trick question, and yet extreme versions of both perspectives have, at...

Funding for the arts is quite frequently commended by political philosophers and political pundits—whom I shall call ‘edificatory...

In the opening essay of Ways of Seeing , John Berger writes, ‘We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice. As a result of...

Since I am now 87 years old, I have inevitably formed certain views about what I do, or try to do, both about writing in general, and...

Fig 1. The Danish Palaces Egg (House of Fabergé 1890). James Petts, Wikimedia Commons. <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Faberge_e...

The months since my investiture have been remarkable in a number of ways. First and foremost, the continuing pandemic has changed the way...

There are certain global issues that pay no attention to national borders or natural barriers: climate change; the COVID-19 pandemic;...

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. —William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1.5.167–68),...

As described by The Arts Desk , Dr Laura Bowler is 'a triple threat composer-performer-provocatrice'. She is the vocalist in Ensemble...

When writing critically about the Russian avant-garde, one finds oneself inexorably drawn towards cosmism, as inexorably as the Earth...

Vittoria Mastrandrea is writer and presenter of the Christie’s Education Art Law course and a PhD candidate in Law at the London School...