TAITMAIL Turner and the artists’ story
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Poor Will Gompertz, the BBC’s arts editor, seemed close to tears this week when he had to tell viewers that the Turner Prize had been awarded to all four finalists. “Is this the end of the Turner Prize?” he almost sobbed. 
The face of Chloé who is shifting the art storyMarine Tanguy, a young French-born entrepreneur who dropped out of university twice, is quietly and energetically switching the balance of the market in favour of artists. 
AI PROFILE Painter of the RA’s renaissanceChristopher Le Brun, president of the Royal Academy 
THE ART OF PHOTOJOURNALISM Image of the monthBig Foot, Small Chick, Sherwood Zoo, April 4, 1974, by Ian Tyas Alan Sparrow introduces this month’s image 
The debt of the Mayflower, 400 years onThe 400th anniversary of the Mayflower sailing for America with 102 passengers is the springboard for Plymouth’s resurgence. But the city’s inclusion in the story is an accident. 
Click goes the election starting gunAlan Sparrow on the trials of election photojournalism 
TAITMAIL Council cash crisis? Flog the artBy Patrick Kelly It may surprise you to know that the TaxPayers’ Alliance, that secretive lobby group that promotes low taxes and free market fetishism, has long had a fixation about art, particularly that art owned by the public. 
REVIEW Reverspective: the inside-out-world of Patrick HughesThis is a self-portrait of the surrealist artist Patrick Hughes. It looks like a conventional convex life mask, but it isn’t: it’s concave, a paradigm of Hughes’s “reverspective” world. 
AI PROFILE Helen Wallace and the nature of musicWhat Kings Place’s 2020 season Nature Unwrapped – Sounds of Life is emphatically not about is climate change. It is so much more. 
GOOD PRACTICE GUIDE The twittering of governanceA year ago the Cultural Governance Alliance (CGA) was set up by the Clore Leadership Programme, with partners such as UK Theatre, Cause 4 and Association of Independent Museums, writes Simon Tait. 
THE WORD The operatic canon in crisis?Following an international research project and a meeting of stakeholders at the Royal Opera House earlier this month, the picture remains complex, writes Cormac Newark. 
THE ART OF PHOTOJOURNALISM Image of the monthFireworks on Blackheath, South London, tower over the Old Royal Naval College at Greenwich, Nov 4, 2017 (a three image combo), by Roger Jackson Alan Sparrow introduces this month’s image |