African art

racist

No, the coronavirus isn’t racist

11 April 2020 3:20 am

It was just a matter of time before the coronavirus was leveraged as a tool of race politics. With the…

Matisse’s ‘Still Life with Shell’ (1940) with his beloved chocolate pot, top left

Object lesson

5 August 2017 9:00 am

Why did Henri Matisse not play chess? It’s a question, perhaps, that few have ever pondered. Yet the great artist…