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Lionel Shriver

Why not ban artists who forget to feed their cats or recycle?

17 February 2018

9:00 AM

17 February 2018

9:00 AM

Sometimes a picture — the big picture — is worth more than a thousand words. Consider this Art vs Artist, Part II.

As #MeToo rolls inexorably on, the movement has scored another casualty, the wheelchair-bound, 77-year-old Chuck Close, whose reputation as a photo-realist had until last month been as immense as his paintings.

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