Beaverbrook - Sickert's 'Political Portrait'
Richard Shone looks at the foray into portraiture of a leading British artist and reflects on the tensions of painter-patron relations in the cultural climate of 1930s Britain.
Art
Nazi Posters in Wartime Russia
How did Hitler's armies try and persuade the occupied populations of the Soviet Union to live with their new regime? British military historian John Erickson comments on wartime posters unearthed from the Russian archives.
Art for the People
G. Waterfield and Nicola Smith look at an initiative to blend industrial living and artistic appreciation in Victorian Britain.
The Tangled Web of Art's War Victims
Frank Nowikowski investigates missing paintings mysteriously found after the Second World War.
Turner and Shakespeare's Jessica
Andrew Wilton discusses a picture that shows the great landscape painter in a role removed from his stereotype, and which tells us much about the changing mores and aspirations of 'Middlemarch' England.
Philadelphia's Unknown Master
Rachel Braverman on a shocking American realist.
Art and Empire - Wembley, 1924
Tom August explores the imperial assumptions - and the hints of independence from Britannia - to be found in the paintings and artists on show in the Palace of Arts at the British Empire Exhibition.
The Soderini And The Medici; Painting, Power And Patronage; & Leonardo
Three new publications on the Renaissance
German Cartoons of the First World War
Pictures worth a thousand words - William Coupe traces, via cartoons, the changes in attitudes and public opinion in the Kaiser's Germany towards the First World War.
The Art And Architecture Of Freemasonry
by J.S. Curl