‘Being a mom sometimes sucks’: an interview with Sarah Hoover
The art historian’s memoir is no feminist treatise
Art history
Tuesday
Thursday
The Exchange will delight anyone seeking an impossible story made possible
This bizarre story would teeter on the incredible if it weren’t wholly true
Saturday
The life of the revolutionary Albrecht Dürer
In his new book, Philip Hoare moves beyond his own hand to make something reckless, marvelous and unforgettable
Monday
The university fighting back against the diversocrats
A professor was fired after a single student complained. Then came the backlash
Monday
Why should art have ever been considered a male preserve?
The Mirror and the Palette by Jennifer Higgie and Women in the Picture by Catherine McCormack reviewed
Friday
The truth about beauty
Beauty speaks with such great immediacy because it touches something deep within us
Tuesday
Stalin at Yale
Art history for the age of identity politics
Thursday
A violent ultimatum ended Giacometti’s brief flirtation with Marlene Dietrich
Those with long enough memories may remember Desmond Morris as the presenter of the hit ITV children’s programme of Zoo Time in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Or perhaps as the author of the 1968 bestseller The Naked Ape, in which he argued that, beneath our sophisticated veneer, humans are nothing more than primates. Now aged 90, he has written an uproariously funny book on the ostensibly unlikely subject of the Surrealists. I say ‘ostensibly’ because, before becoming a successful zoologist, Morris was actually a painter and even had a joint exhibition in London with Joan Miró. In The Lives of the Surrealists he takes on the role of
