Arts feature
The composer of dog-food ads who also wrote one of the most original cycles of British symphonies
Next month in London, they’re celebrating a composer you’ve probably never heard of, but whose work you’re sure to have…
Will a new Labour government let architects reshape housing?
‘We make our buildings, and afterwards they make us,’ Winston Churchill said in 1924 in a speech to the Architectural…
The rise of Christian cinema
Robert Jackman on the rise of Christian cinema
Can everyone please shut up about Maria Callas?
Rupert Christiansen on the cult of Callas
No one should trust the camera in the age of AI
Bryan Appleyard on photographic manipulation, past and present
How the Georgians invented nightlife
Dan Hitchens on the Georgian obsession with lavish light shows and nocturnal adventures
Immaterial world
VR ‘immersion’ is everywhere in London this autumn, but is it of any value? Stuart Jeffries takes the plunge
Romancing the stone
Calvin Po on the revival of building in the solid, sustainable, dependable material that lies readily beneath our feet
Northern lights
Claudia Massie on the spectacular new galleries that showcase the best of Scottish art for the first time
To die for
Seventy-five years after its release, Powell and Pressburger’s dazzling, much-loved classic is more timely than ever, says Robin Ashenden
