Jonathan McAloon has written for the Spectator, the New Statesman, the TLS and the London magazine. He tweets at @jonniemcaloon
If anything, the corporation should be taken to task for its desperate bid for accessibility
Has Andrew Graham-Dixon uncovered the secrets of art history's most enigmatic woman?
The BBC is sexing up ceramics in Stoke-On-Trent
Schama's delivery saves the first episode from homely tackiness
Shostakovich's 1931 ballet was pulled from Russian theatres after just one performance; now, a show in London tried to bring it back
Daniel Lobb's installation for children is a nice idea, but what's it actually for? And can you eat it?
The really magnificent thing about Veronese is his eye for incidental detail
Francesco Vezzoli's plans to rebuild a 19th-century Calabrese church at New York's MoMA PS1 have been abandoned
Looking at the two museums side by side – which one do you think looks more radical?
The exhibits at 'Beyond El Dorado' are compelling not only for the myths associated with them, but for their idiosyncratic human appeal
