Arts feature
John Gielgud and Richard Burton’s fraught, botched, triumphant Hamlet
Robert Gore-Langton on John Gielgud and Richard Burton’s fraught, botched, triumphant Hamlet
What the V&A Dundee exhibition doesn’t tell you about tartan
Angus Colwell is not convinced that the V&A Dundee’s exhibition Tartan is what the city needs
Why Christopher Wren died thinking his life had been a failure
Adrian Tinniswood on the fall and rise — and fall and rise — of England’s greatest architect
A look inside Britain’s only art gallery in jail
Stuart Jeffries meets the prisonerartists of HMP Grendon
How fog gripped the Victorian imagination
Christine L. Corton on how fog gripped the Victorian imagination
The rise of the modern British B-movie
Robert Jackman on the rise of the modern British B-movie
The cult of Morse
As the cult series draws to its conclusion, Tanya Gold travels to Morsefest in Oxford to meet the detective’s devoted followers
Ukraine must stop destroying its cultural heritage
Ukraine must stop demolishing its public statues, says Yevheniia Moliar
Blue monkeys, bull-leaping and child sacrifice: why were the Minoans so weird?
Daisy Dunn on the mysterious Minoans
The mysterious world of British folk costume
Christopher Howse on the transformative power of folk costume
How Vermeer learnt to embrace the everyday – and transfigured it
Laura Gascoigne on Vermeer’s women
Wars of the roses
Matthew Wilson on the female medieval poet who rescued the flower’s reputation
My hunt for the Holy Grail: Damned drummer Rat Scabies interviewed
Revd Steve Morris talks to former Damned drummer Rat Scabies about his journey from punk rock to the Holy Grail
The art of art restoration
Frank Lawton talks to Maurizio De Luca, former chief restorer at the Vatican, about the pitfalls of his profession
Why I hate Beethoven’s Pastoral symphony
Norman Lebrecht on his hatred of Beethoven’s Pastoral
Petrol, seawater and blood: the horror of Cornwall
Tanya Gold talks to cult director Mark Jenkin about his ominous vision of Cornwall
Do conductors have to be cruel to be good?
Richard Bratby on monstrous maestros
An Uffizi Adoration that upstages even the Botticellis
Laura Gascoigne on the shadowy Flemish artist Hugo van der Goes, whose painting in the Uffizi upstages the masterpieces of Botticelli
‘What happened in Russia can happen anywhere’: Pussy Riot interviewed
Oliver Basciano talks to Maria Alyokhina of Pussy Riot about Putin-baiting, Ukraine and western hypocrisy
Why ASMR is evil
Sam Kriss on how we became addicted to ASMR
A once-great engine of culture, slowly running out of steam: the BBC at 100
Tanjil Rashid on the BBC at 100
The bleak brilliance of Peanuts
Mathew Lyons on the life lessons of Peanuts
King Charles III’s love of classical music
Damian Thompson on King Charles III’s love of classical music
Kazuo Ishiguro: My love affair with film
Tanjil Rashid talks to Kazuo Ishiguro about his long and underexplored love affair with film
War games do something seriously unpleasant to our brains
Not all video games are war games but those that are do something deeply unpleasant to our brains, says Sam Kriss
