Attacking the Bible: an artist’s false bravado

Brian Lilley | 08 August 2009 | comment 21

A Scottish art gallery attacks the Bible, goes easy on the Koran. Should we be surprised?

When art was by and for the people

John Robson | 20 June 2009 | comment 6

The modern left seems to think good art should exclude the masses, William Morris knew better.

Holding up a mirror to perversity

Barbara Kay | 28 May 2009 | comment 17

Francis Bacon represents an art world bent on showing the human body in its most degraded form.

Red carpet morality

Barbara Lilley | 09 February 2009 | comment 15

Hollywood is in the midst of putting its best and brightest up on a pedestal. Should the rest of us?

Family resemblances

Francis Phillips | 21 August 2008 | comment 5

Two visions of English family life in classic British portraiture.

Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel

Francis Phillips | 01 August 2008 | comment 3

Five hundred years ago a lonely, solitary, God-driven man began his greatest work. 

The sublime message of Christmas

John Armstrong | 27 December 2007

The central idea of Christmas -- that God became man -- has had an enormous impact upon Western art.

How literature reveals intelligent design

William Park | 12 October 2007 | comment 11

A literary critic discerns pointers towards the transcendent in great works of imagination.

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