Arts feature
Tales of the unexpected
Tim Rice’s latest venture is about to open in the West End. Here he takes us through the happy accidents that have led to his hit musicals
The last gladdy
Robert Gore-Langton talks to Barry Humphries, alter ego of the gigastar Dame Edna
Another country
William Cook has moved to Metroland. He contemplates John Betjeman’s vision of it
Light fantastic
Andrew Lambirth meets Chris Ingram, the collector behind a much-lauded museum in Woking
Buying a pup
The contrast could not have been more acute. It came the day after a press release from Christie’s New York…
Medieval indulgence
Think of an art at which the English have excelled and I doubt you would come up with the word…
Sounds in silence
As his father lay dying some six years ago, Julian Broke-Evans promised him that he would ‘keep telling the story’,…
Private passions
In the past ten years museums of modern and contemporary art have proliferated around the world. New institutions have appeared…
Northern rocks
William Cook is inspired by England’s sculptural heartland in Yorkshire, just as Moore and Hepworth were
Man with a plan
Robert Gore-Langton meets Gregory Doran, new artistic director at the RSC
Classics in Crackland
Damian Thompson visits Brazil to hear Marin Alsop whip São Paulo’s orchestra into shape
Under the radar
A major exhibition of Australian art is about to open at the Royal Academy. Barry Humphries believes visitors will be surprised
Are you sitting comfortably…
Robert Gore-Langton on Oxford’s new Story Museum, which aims to put stories into young lives deprived of books
The Edinburgh experience
Lloyd Evans samples the delights of the Fringe
Places of enchantment
Claudia Massie is impressed by this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival
Manet in Italy
Roderick Conway Morris on the French master’s love affair with the art and artists of the Renaissance
Defying type
Lloyd Evans meets the ever-versatile David Haig
Virtual art
Michael Prodger finds that new technology is transforming how we experience art – in galleries, on computers and on smartphones too
A fine vintage
Lloyd Evans meets Peter Nichols, who, in his ninth decade, is riding a wave of public favour
Fighting culture’s corner
The latest round of cuts have been greeted with relief. Think again, says Stephen Deuchar, director of the Art Fund
