Arts feature
The master returns
There’s a scene in 887, Robert Lepage’s latest show, which opened at the Edinburgh International Festival last week, in which…
I reshot Andy Warhol
Stephen Smith finally sees the point of Empire, one of the dullest films in cinema history
I reshot Andy Warhol
It’s one thing to make the most boring film in cinema history — at least you can kid yourself at…
The Long view
William Cook explores the elemental art and Olympian walks of Richard Long
The Long view
On the green edge of Clifton Downs, high above the city, there is a sculpture that encapsulates the strange magic…
Look at my Fringe
Our theatre critic, Lloyd Evans, makes his Edinburgh debut
Look at my Fringe
Like everyone performing at the Edinburgh Fringe I’m about to make a lot of mistakes. I’m about to lose a…
Wild things
Are adventure playgrounds set to make a comeback, asks Maisie Rowe
The London ear
It’s easy to tag the city’s terrain by writer. But what, wonders Philip Clark, might a map of its music look like?
‘Shocking is too easy’
No one does transgression like the filmmaker John Waters. Jasper Rees talks to him about political correctness, post-ops and pubes
Starr quality
Ringo’s no joke, says James Woodall. He was a genius and the Beatles were lucky to have him
City life
To gentrify or not to gentrify. That is the question, says Stephen Bayley
Elysian fields
Glastonbury is a model for radical policy reform, says Steve Hilton
Seeing the light
Martin Gayford talks to the artist James Turrell, who has lit up Houghton Hall like a baroque firework display
His dark materials
Will Gore talks to the playwright who has brought Jimmy Savile’s crimes to the stage
Museum relic
Do we really need museums in the age of Wikipedia and Google? William Cook thinks we do but his children don’t agree
Restoration drama
Yes William Cook Rejoice! Rejoice! Fifty-four years after its destruction, Euston Arch has returned to Euston. Well, after a fashion.…
Eastern reflections
In his introductory remarks to the Afro–Eurasian Eclipse, one of his later suites for jazz orchestra, Duke Ellington remarked —…
More Marx than Dante
Martin Gayford finds a few nice paintings amid the dead trees, old clothes and agitprop of the Venice Biennale
Funny business
What does it take to be a stand-up comic? Jackie Mason has absolutely no idea
Messy genius
Orson Welles would have been 100 this month. When he died in 1985, aged 70, the wonder was that he…
State of play
How has political theatre fared during the coalition? Not very well, writes Lloyd Evans
Mistress of modernism
What classical music really needs is more performers like Barbara Hannigan. Philip Clark meets theself-conducting soprano
Cathedrals on wheels
Stephen Bayley hails the automobile – a miracle of technical and artistic collaboration – and mourns its demise
Boris’s London legacy
Jack Wakefield on the Mayor’s ambitious, not to say whimsical, vision for the Olympic Park
