Arts feature
Shooting star
Tanjil Rashid on the polymathic Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray, who spearheaded a new school of Indian cinema
Born again
Richard Bratby on the resurrection of wunderkind Erich Korngold’s long-neglected masterpiece
Fantastic beasts
Sam Kriss on the power of paleoart
Going public
It is high time we did justice to the treasures of the royal collection, says Jack Wakefield
Great Dane
Borgen star Sidse Babett Knudsen talks to Jasper Rees about why, after a break of ten years, the implausibly more-ish series is returning for a fourth season
Poetry in motion
Craig Raine on the challenges of translating poets’ lives and work to the screen
Old cud and fleshy frumps
Artist, actor, social justice warrior, serial killer. Laura Gascoigne on the many faces of Walter Sickert
The hecklers
Keith Burstein recalls a key moment in the battle for emancipation from the ivory tower of atonalism
‘I came, I saw, I scribbled’
Graeme Thomson talks to former Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan about his first art folio
Thrills, frills and folderols
A clever, original exhibition at the Wallace Collection has Laura Freeman twirling her way through the West End
High and mighty
Dan Hitchens on the beauty of gasholders
Lend me your ears
Don’t read James Joyce’s Ulysses, says John Phipps. Listen to it
Saint or hustler?
Laura Gascoigne dishes the dirt on Raphael
‘I had no interest in the theatre whatsoever’
Lloyd Evans talks to Keith Allen about Max Bygraves, how he fell into acting and the sensitivities of contemporary audiences
Go down, Moses
Robert Gore-Langton on the man who wrecked New York
The head in the bed
Fifty years since The Godfather’s release, Thomas W. Hodgkinson revisits the film’s most unforgettable scene
A new Arab spring?
Stuart Jeffries on Saudi Arabia’s burgeoning art scene
Building block
We should learn to love our turn-of-the-millennium architecture, says Helen Barrett, starting with the Dome
Everything under the sun
Christopher Howse is bowled over by the astonishingartefacts in the British Museum’s Stonehenge exhibition
The art of the high street
Daisy Dunn on the painters who celebrate shop fronts
The cowpat myth
He is caricatured as a populist and purveyor of ‘folky-wolky’ melodies, says Richard Bratby, but Vaughan Williams was a modernist master of uncompromising originality
Call of the wild
Francis Bacon sensed our inner beastliness and painted it with astonishing power, says Martin Gayford
Neville’s advocate
Nigel Jones talks to the writer Robert Harris about Blair, Johnson and Polanski, cancel culture and his quest to rehabilitate Neville Chamberlain
Master of dawn and dusk
Igor Toronyi-Lalic talks to the film-maker Apichatpong Weerasethakul about sleep, Tilda Swinton and VR
Second in command
The importance of understudies has been elevated to new heights by the pandemic, says Sarah Crompton
