Arts feature
Mike Leigh interview: 'A guy in the Guardian wants to sue me for defamation of Ruskin!'
Hermione Eyre talks to filmmaker Mike Leigh about Mr Turner, Hollywood, and making films his own way
Without sci-fi, there would be no cinema
Without sci-fi, there would be no cinema, writes Peter Hoskin
The images from the Apollo missions will reduce you to tears
Mark Mason on the images that make grown men cry
My Schubert marathon
Just how much fun is it listening to all 650 of Schubert’s songs, asks Damian Thompson
Is John Hoyland the new Turner?
What happens to an artist’s reputation when he dies? Traditionally, there was a period of cooling off when the reputation,…
'I like vanished things': Anselm Kiefer on art, alchemy and his childhood
Martin Gayford talks to a surprisingly jolly Anselm Kiefer about art and metamorphosis
Michelangelo’s vision was greater even than Shakespeare’s
Alasdair Palmer reveals the monstrous egomaniac behind Michelangelo’s artistic genius
How independence will impoverish Scottish culture
Daniel Jackson foresees an impoverished cultural landscape for an independentScotland, with artists forced to do Salmond’s bidding
Pizza, choc-ice and Leonardos – the treasures of Turin
Laura Gascoigne enjoys a grand tour of Italy’s former capital city
The enigma of Werner Herzog
William Cook watches a new box set from the BFI that reveals the full extent of the German director’s genius – and insanity
Alex Salmond has already lost — if the Edinburgh Festival is anything to go by
Lloyd Evans tours the Edinburgh Festival in search of clues about the outcome of the referendum
My addiction to the bullet train
Stephen Bayley explains why he has become addicted to Japan’s Shinkansen
'They took me in like I was their son': Wynton Marsalis on jazz's great tradition
Martin Gayford talks to Wynton Marsalis about the rigours of playing jazz
Home Front: Radio 4's first world war drama will fight out the full four years
Kate Chisholm on the BBC’s ambitious new radio series
I think I’ve found the new Maria Callas
Some of my most enjoyable evenings, when I reviewed opera weekly for The Spectator, were spent at the Royal College…
How conductors keep getting better at 90
Matthew Stadlen talks to three conductors about growing old very gracefully
Natalia Osipova interview: ‘I'm not interested in diamond tiaras on stage’
Giannandrea Poesio talks to Natalia Osipova about her ballet-based philosophy
The home of Holland’s celebrity paintings gets a makeover
Laura Gascoigne on the treasures in the newly reopened Mauritshaus museum in The Hague
Indiscretions from two veteran producers
Robert Gore-Langton talks to Duncan Weeldon and Paul Elliott about the good old days – and getting shafted
'I would find myself forging my own work': Quentin Blake on how he came to found the House of Illustration
Ariane Bankes talks to Quentin Blake about a new project that will bring illustration out of the shadows
John Bishop interview: ‘My dream was to be Steven Gerrard, but he got there first’
Stand-up comedian John Bishop tells Matthew Stadlen about the depression that triggered his career
Alex Jennings interview: the new Willy Wonka on Roald Dahl’s ‘child killer’
Alex Jennings, the new Willy Wonka, tells Lloyd Evans why Dahl’s ‘misanthropic world’ is fascinating to inhabit
Modernism's dreams – and nightmares – at the Venice Architectural Biennale
Roderick Conway Morris is edified and entertained by the Venice Architectural Biennale
Nicola Benedetti interview: Bruch, boyfriends and Scottish independence
Matthew Stadlen talks to the violinist Nicola Benedetti about what drew her to Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy
