Arts

Drake’s progress

11 February 2017 9:00 am

Those poor Canadian rappers. Hailing from a country with a functioning benefits system, sensible firearms restrictions and relatively harmonious race…

Age concern

11 February 2017 9:00 am

Brahms didn’t always have a beard. The picture in the London Symphony Orchestra’s programme book showed him clean-shaven, and rightly.…

Losing the plot

11 February 2017 9:00 am

Fully to enjoy Opera North’s new production of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel you need to take a trinocular perspective on…

Rules of engagement

11 February 2017 9:00 am

The BBC foreign correspondent Hugh Sykes was meant to be talking about how music has shaped his life with Sarah…

Impaired vision

11 February 2017 9:00 am

With the Shannon Matthews story, it’s not easy to accentuate the positive — but BBC1’s The Moorside (Tuesday) is having…

Timeless and dated

11 February 2017 9:00 am

Tennessee Williams’s breakthrough play is a portrait of his dysfunctional family. A young writer, Tom (Williams’s real name), lives with…

James Cook items, Treasures Gallery, NLA, Canberra

11 February 2017 9:00 am

If you missed the 100 Objects from the British Museum on display at the Museum of Australia, don’t despair, there…

‘Explosive eruption of Vesuvius viewed from Naples, October 1822’ by George Poulett Scrope Frontispiece from Considerations on Volcanoes, 1825

Some like it hot

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

In the mid-6th century, legend has it, St Brendan set off from Ireland with a currach-load of monks on a…

Relative values: Annette Bening and Lucas Jade Zumann in ‘20th Century Women’

Mother superior

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

Unlike with buses, you wait ages and ages for one fabulous film as framed by the older female perspective to…

‘Ossie Wearing a Fairisle Sweater’, 1970, by David Hockney

Sunny delight

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

No Californian could have painted Hockney’s pools. No La-La Land artist, raised on sun and orange juice, would have done…

Age concern

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

Brahms didn’t always have a beard. The picture in the London Symphony Orchestra’s programme book showed him clean-shaven, and rightly.…

Age concern

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

Brahms didn’t always have a beard. The picture in the London Symphony Orchestra’s programme book showed him clean-shaven, and rightly.…

Timeless and dated

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

Tennessee Williams’s breakthrough play is a portrait of his dysfunctional family. A young writer, Tom (Williams’s real name), lives with…

Timeless and dated

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

Tennessee Williams’s breakthrough play is a portrait of his dysfunctional family. A young writer, Tom (Williams’s real name), lives with…

Losing the plot

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

Fully to enjoy Opera North’s new production of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel you need to take a trinocular perspective on…

Losing the plot

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

Fully to enjoy Opera North’s new production of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel you need to take a trinocular perspective on…

Rules of engagement

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

The BBC foreign correspondent Hugh Sykes was meant to be talking about how music has shaped his life with Sarah…

Rules of engagement

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

The BBC foreign correspondent Hugh Sykes was meant to be talking about how music has shaped his life with Sarah…

Impaired vision

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

With the Shannon Matthews story, it’s not easy to accentuate the positive — but BBC1’s The Moorside (Tuesday) is having…

Hull’s a poppin’

4 February 2017 9:00 am

In early January, lastminute.com recommended its top 15 destinations for 2017. In 12th spot, just above Montreal, Croatia and Japan,…

Metal fatigue

4 February 2017 9:00 am

‘All that glisters is not gold,’ wrote Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice), and you have to hand it to the…

Seeing everything in black and white

4 February 2017 9:00 am

Two divergent approaches to printmaking are on view in an exhibition of graphic work by Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud…

Notes on a scandal

4 February 2017 9:00 am

Kids: who’d have them? Certainly no one who has ever been to the opera. If they’re not murdering you, they’re…

Sign of the times

4 February 2017 9:00 am

As if on cue, The World At One on Monday (Radio 4) ended with a short (too short) interview with…

The real George III

4 February 2017 9:00 am

Before he died aged 44 (probably of a pulmonary embolism, poor chap), Frederick, Prince of Wales, compiled a list of…