Past Issue
February 2022
• An interview with Ai Weiwei
• The art of kabuki theatre
• Dining with Beauty and the Beast
• The drawings of Jacques-Louis David
Plus: a touring display of Islamic arts in France, the hellish mining scenes of George Bissell, Madame de Pompadour’s porcelain, and a preview of Asia Week New York
Inside this issue
Past issues
April 2022
Surrealism | Cecilia Alemani | Bassano's Quails
March 2022
Charles Ray | Ricardo Boffil | Yves Saint Laurent
January 2022
Howardena Pindell | The Humboldt Forum | Dürer’s wanderlust
December 2021
Botticelli | Munch museum | Fabergé
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Why aren’t more women artists gazing at men?
There is no great tradition of male nudes by women artists, but this underlines an asymmetry of power rather than a lack of female desire