NOWHERE TO HIDE

  It is not often that portrait painting makes the news twice in a week – albeit it for different reasons. There is nothing new about images of the ultra-rich being hung on a wall and in many historic cases, the painted portrait is the only evidence of their...

MORAL RECTITUDE AND PANIC IN THE ARTS

  Last year I spoke to an artist who had had to remove and rehang her exhibition three times until it was out of the view of offended pensioners using a community centre. She took her dilemma to a radio station and received a sympathetic reception but in the end,...