Let’s hear it for the ladies who paint
The works of female painters were consistently undervalued by auction houses – but that’s all changing
Nasty, brutish and hot
Getting a red neck in the Arizona Desert
‘How would you feel if you killed your baby?’
Are doctors the moral arbiters of Blue State life — and death?
The Black Arrows come for Zadie Smith
The furore around the Teeth author’s latest short story shows the risk of keeping your politics slightly to yourself.
Top of the class
A Harvard aristocrat pulls curbside rank
Drake’s soft centre makes him a new type of hip-hop role model
The Canadian rapper’s response to Pusha-T on his new album is nimble and reasonable.
Donald Trump’s fixation on celebrity is what makes him so…American
It’s almost impossible to imagine the President praising a book or a person or an idea, or really anything, that hasn’t been approved by a lot of people.
Sure, Donald Trump is uncultured – but is that such a bad thing?
The president may be averse to the arts, but he’s hardly shaking the republic to its core.
The obscenity of the art world
You’ve probably heard that we’re in a boom time for the art business, breaking sales records as fast as we…
Silicon Valley has entered the culture war to ‘make the world a better place’
By ceasing its promotion of R. Kelly and XXXTentacion's music, Spotify aims to show its users that they are headed towards the moral promised land.
America’s winners are spiritually sick
If Trump is rotten from the core, what the hell does that say about the popular culture we’ve all let flourish in the past few decades?
