The oeuvre of Kehinde Wiley—art-world representative of the American super-rich—as iconography of capitalist desire in crisis. Can paintings transfixed by the glamour of the ruling class offer a coded indictment of it, via the assimilation of Romantic and Renaissance prototypes?
Saul Nelson on T. J. Clark, If These Apples Should Fall. Why—and how—Cézanne took visual representation in painting to breaking point.