ALAN SIMPSON offers a few pointers on dealing with the ongoing, Trump-led destruction of the norms of a rules-based international order established post-WWII
ABOUT 10 years ago, trapped in Dublin by those Icelandic volcanoes, I found I had time to visit an exhibition of an artist — Frida Kahlo — I had read about but never actually seen her paintings except in books.
Now at last I could see the actual gem like sparkling works.
Most were small, brightly coloured with frames that made them a bit like atheist religious icons.
BLANE SAVAGE recommends the display of nine previously unseen works by the Glaswegian artist, novelist and playwright
NICK MATTHEWS previews a landmark book launch taking place in Leicester next weekend
CHRIS MOSS relishes the painting and the life story of a self-taught working-class artist from Warrington
LOUISE BOURDUA introduces the emotional and narrative religious art of 14th-century Siena that broke with Byzantine formalism and laid the foundations for the Renaissance



