News
Animal Rights Activists Target New King Charles Portrait
The action was in protest of allegations against the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, where King Charles III is a patron.
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Opinion
In Defense of Jonathan Yeo’s King Charles Portrait
Just like Velázquez’s last portrait of King Philip IV of Spain, Yeo’s blood-red painting signifies the imminent downfall of a monarch.
Art
The Disrupted Realism of the New King Charles Portrait
The viral painting mirrors a contemporary movement that allows for improvisation and often fuses representation and abstraction in unexpected ways.
Art
Portrait of King Charles Gives New Meaning to “Bloody Hell”
The painting by British artist Jonathan Yeo was met with a torrent of memes, online reactions, and expressions of puzzlement.
Opinion
The Dangerous Allure of the Royal Aesthetic
The pomp and pageantry of King Charles’s coronation follows the playbook of authoritarian theatrics.
Opinion
King Charles Wants to Make Britain "Beautiful" Again
The British monarch and Donald Trump have both tried to impose neoclassical architecture on their countries — and one of them actually succeeded.
News
All Hail These Memes of King Charles
The Internet is coping with the crowning of the world’s oldest intern the only way it knows how.