Arts feature
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
Cheap thrills
Robert Jackman on the rise of the modern British B-movie
Morse mania
As the cult series draws to its conclusion, Tanya Gold travels to Morsefest in Oxford to meet the detective’s devoted followers
Monumental mistakes
Ukraine must stop demolishing its public statues, says Yevheniia Moliar
Lost worlds
Daisy Dunn on the mysterious Minoans
Stranger things
Christopher Howse on the transformative power of folk costume
Who’s that girl?
Laura Gascoigne on Vermeer’s women
Wars of the roses
Matthew Wilson on the female medieval poet who rescued the flower’s reputation
‘I’ve ended up looking for pixies’
Revd Steve Morris talks to former Damned drummer Rat Scabies about his journey from punk rock to the Holy Grail
Listening to walls
Frank Lawton talks to Maurizio De Luca, former chief restorer at the Vatican, about the pitfalls of his profession
Bitter sweet symphony
Norman Lebrecht on his hatred of Beethoven’s Pastoral
Petrol, seawater and blood
Tanya Gold talks to cult director Mark Jenkin about his ominous vision of Cornwall
Conduct unbecoming
Richard Bratby on monstrous maestros
