I cringed a little at the names that the Mayor of London came up with for six Overground railway lines – Windrush, Suffragette and Lioness among them. Their uncritical agitprop implied everyone had signed up to an approved version of history.
Russian artist Andrei Molodkin will destroy works by Picasso, Rembrandt and Warhol if Julian Assange dies in prison. It’s an unoriginal idea born of art-historical ignorance
Frans Hals is the latest 17th century Dutch master to feature in a major exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, following recent showings of the art of Rembrandt and Vermeer.