Tom Fleming is a contributing editor at Literary Review
As the Olympic Games arrive in Paris, two exhibitions shine a light on overlooked aspects of competitive sport
No one could accuse the painter of flattering his subjects, but he was certainly painstaking about capturing them on canvas
Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines’s art school in Suffolk was an unusual meeting of rural idyll and bohemian vice
A new biography of the British painter has a fine sense of his precocious talent – and real feeling for his rakish charm
The first exhibition to bring the sculptor and photographer together reveals intriguing points of convergence between their work
The painter exerts the force of his personality from beyond the grave in the first part of this unconventional biography
Cosman was a fine portraitist who captured the leading cultural figures of her time
The Brotherhood loomed large in the poet’s life, but she was careful to carve out her own creative space
The lives of John Craxton, Nikos Ghika and Patrick Leigh Fermor come under the spotlight at the British Museum
These erotic fantasies reveal how painfully separate the artist kept his private and public lives