The Long Now – Saatchi Gallery At Forty

The Long Now – Saatchi Gallery At Forty

There’s a certain irony in calling an exhibition The Long Now when its host, the Saatchi Gallery, has built its reputation on immediacy, the shock of the new, the just-discovered, the youthful movement that once sold tabloids and now fills Instagram reels. Yet here we...
Arts Return To National Curriculum Ending Fourteen-Year Exile

Arts Return To National Curriculum Ending Fourteen-Year Exile

After more than a decade of slow erosion, the arts are finally being let back into the classroom. The Cultural Policy Unit — the small but influential think tank behind much of Labour’s arts agenda — has helped push through what looks to be the most significant...
The Art Diary November 2025 – Revd Jonathan Evens

The Art Diary November 2025 – Revd Jonathan Evens

November’s art diary begins with exhibitions by artists (including Lakwena Maciver, Hannah Rose Thomas, Tuli Mekondjo, and Paul B. Kincaid), about which I’ve written previously or with which I have worked, and venues with similar connections, mainly with a...
Just Stop Oil Activists Cleared Over Stonehenge Protest

Just Stop Oil Activists Cleared Over Stonehenge Protest

A prehistoric monument has become the stage for a modern debate about protest, politics, and the planet. This week, three members of Just Stop Oil walked free from Salisbury Crown Court after being cleared of causing a public nuisance for spraying Stonehenge with a...