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Russias foreign ministry has sanctioned Hampstead-raised historian Orlando Figes, claiming he "demonises" Russia and…

SIEMON SCAMELL-KATZ is an artist who looks—as Eva Figes writes of Claude Monet adrift among his water lilies in the blue-gray hour before dawn in her 1983 novel Light—“at, not through. The bright skin of things, the shimmering envelope.” Scamell-Katz’s exquisitely colored abstract paintings on aluminum are a bit like that shimmering pond in Giverny: At first, they are subtly reflective, sensuous. They change dramatically with the angle of one’s gaze, their proximity to a window, the...

The subtitle of Peter Orner's 2016 book of essays Am I Alone Here? is Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live. Apparently, Orner...

The end of Pantheon and Metropolitan augers a strange and unchallenging world of ideas.

Silence is ultimately the opposite of what any decent book or book publisher stands for.

John Berger examines the tradition that panders to male voyeurism by depicting naked women as passive objects of desire.

John Berger’s Ways of Seeing has been described as art history’s equivalent of Mao’s Little Red Book. It changed how we look at art.

It is tempting to harness “Civilization and its Discontents” as a guide to our contemporary political morass, but doing so may obscure its most valuable message.

It was an unlikely choice for BBC Two to schedule against Match of the Day. But Berger’s series and book now forms the bedrock of how we interpret art and advertising