Nov 17, 2023
Week in review
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On the Met’s rehang, haunted houses & Sotheby’s.
On the Met’s rehang, haunted houses & Sotheby’s.
On Houellebecq, cross-Channel rivalry & Sophie Calle.
On art thieves, Damien Hirst’s inertia & public art’s revival.
On Samuel Johnson, sketching da Vinci, a Sotheby’s star & more.
On the development of artist bibliographies.
On Lutyens, Luisa Miller & more from the world of culture.
On the limited impact of recent natural disasters on the art world.
On the frequently misguided moral rights lawsuits filed by artists.
On accusations of ideological impurity and the abrogation of the presumption of innocence in the art world.
On Orientalist art in an age of political correctness.