Arts feature
The ruff stuff
Why is Frans Hals still not considered the equal of Rembrandt, asks Craig Raine
California dreaming
Adam Sweeting talks to Graham Nash about Joni Mitchell, the Hollies and the birth of Crosby, Stills and Nash in the Laurel Canyon idyll of the 1960s
The house that Rach built
Fast cars, minimalist design and en suite bathrooms: Richard Bratby visits the composer’s starkly modern Swiss home
The last laugh
Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Richard Lewis talks to Ben Lazarus about addiction, his Parkinson’s diagnosis – and his friendship with Larry David
All that remains
Barnaby Rogerson on how his collaboration with a great photographer has brought the ancient world very close
Hanging offences
Calvin Po laments the pious distortions of history at two of Britain’s best-known galleries
All my world was a stage
Robin Ashenden remembers the heyday of local repertory theatre – now sadly in terminal decline
Here comes the Hun
Hungarian culture is living through a golden age, says Igor Toronyi-Lalic, and the West has much to learn from it
The brutality of ballet
Despite #MeToo and the new resistance to male bullying, the dance world is still ferocious and unforgiving, writes Rupert Christiansen
Hot air
Can anything serious come from podcasts, asks Sam Kriss
Kabuki nights
Louise Levene on the Japanese art form you can now watch at home
Mysterious ways
The Chester Mystery Plays date back to the 13th century – but are more popular now than ever, finds Richard Bratby
Fighting talk
It isn’t easy selling out Wembley Stadium with its capacity of between 70,000 and 90,000 (depending on the exact arrangement).…
‘Be original or die!’
Hermione Eyre on Yevonde, the pioneering 1930s photographer whose colour portraits evoke a vanishing world
Cloth of heaven
Jonathan Ruffer calls for the return to Britain of the Tudor tapestry that proclaims the birth of the Church of England
All quiet on the western front
Zoe Strimpel talks to the anti-Putin Russian artists who have been cancelled since the invasion of Ukraine
Back to black
Michael Hann on the most enduring of pop subcultures
Me and Mr Jones
Adam Sweeting talks to the documentary-maker Nick Broomfield about the forgotten Rolling Stone
A saint for all seasons
Laura Gascoigne on the pulling power of St Francis of Assisi
Crowning glory
Dan Hitchens on the art that has shaped our image of the coronation
Great Dane
Robert Gore-Langton on John Gielgud and Richard Burton’s fraught, botched, triumphant Hamlet
Checks and balances
Angus Colwell is not convinced that the V&A Dundee’s exhibition Tartan is what the city needs
Wrenaissance man
Adrian Tinniswood on the fall and rise — and fall and rise — of England’s greatest architect
Insider art
Stuart Jeffries meets the prisonerartists of HMP Grendon
Talking dirty
Christine L. Corton on how fog gripped the Victorian imagination
