The Spectator - October 29, 2016

(Joyce) #1

ARTS SPECIAL
44 Stephen Bayley Maps are as much
about art —and lies — as science


46 Fashion The Vulgar:
Fashion Redefined
Nicky Haslam


48 Exhibitions Paul Nash
Martin Gayford


49 Sculpture Tony Cragg;
Antony Gormley
Niru Ratnam


51 Exhibitions Hercules Segers;
Frans Post; Adriaen van de Velde
Laura Gascoigne


53 Cinema Lo and Behold:
Reveries of the Connected World
Bryan Appleyard
Opera The Nose; Billy Budd
Richard Bratby


54 Television James Delingpole


55 Radio Kate Chisholm


56 Theatre A Pacifist’s Guide to the
War on Cancer; The Red Barn;
Shopping and Fucking
Lloyd Evans


LIFE
61 High life Taki
Low life Jeremy Clarke
62 Real life Melissa Kite
63 Long life Alexander Chancellor
64 The turf Robin Oakley
Bridge Janet de Botton
65 Wine club Jonathan Ray

AND FINALLY...
58 Notes on... Burlington Arcade
Mark Mason
66 Chess Raymond Keene
Competition Lucy Vickery
67 Crossword Fieldfare
68 Status anxiety Toby Young
Battle for Britain Michael Heath
69 Sport Roger Alton
Your problems solved
Mary Killen
70 Food Tanya Gold
Mind your language
Dot Wordsworth

LIFE


Heroic failures of the Dutch Golden Age, p

Danny Kruger is chairman
of the criminal justice charity
Only Connect, and a former
adviser to David Cameron,
one of whose policy failures he
discusses on p. 24.


Philip Hensher is a former
Commons clerk; he wrote
about the job in his second
novel, Kitchen Venom. He
considers Kenneth Clarke’s
cheery reputation on p. 37.

Maggie Fergusson writes
in praise of Jan Morris on
p. 38. Her collection Treasure
Palaces: Great Writers Visit
Great Museums is published
next month.

Nicky Haslam is a socialite,
cabaret singer and interior
designer who’s been on both
Vanity Fair and GQ’s best-
dressed lists. On p. 46, he
discusses vulgarity.

Niru Ratnam is a curator
and director of the Start art
fair. On p. 49, he welcomes
the return to the object by
young artists fired up by largely
incoherent critical theory.

CONTRIBUTORS

High-flyers and cynics of all
ages are somehow made nicer by
Bake Off’s innocence and charm
Ysenda Maxtone Graham, p

Let’s not kid ourselves Oscar Wilde
was some kind of gay liberationist.
Wilde sought pleasure not justice
Matthew Parris, p

It is wonderful to find that
Countess Mountbatten wore
k nickers made out of second world
war airmen’s silk escape maps
Stephen Bayley, p

When freezing to death is a mercy, p
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