Arts
The decade of Delia
Proof that someone has really made it as a TV historian comes, I would suggest, when they join the likes…
Funny is dangerous
‘I’m off now,’ says Michael Heath, signing off from his selection of Desert Island Discs on Radio 4, ‘to go…
Requiem for a designer dream
Threnody. Dirge. Lament. Epitaph. Elegy. Wake. There are so many English terms to describe the passing of people and things…
Tartan-ing up the arts
Many years ago an arts spokesperson for the SNP launched an extraordinary attack on Scottish Opera, saying, ‘If push comes…
Northern exposure
As the festival grows, the good acts are harder to find and the prices keep rising to meet the throngs…
Oven-ready
Todd Solondz’s Wiener-Dog is billed as a ‘dark comedy’ although it is far more dark than comic. If pressed to…
Requiem for a designer dream
Threnody. Dirge. Lament. Epitaph. Elegy. Wake. There are so many English terms to describe the passing of people and things…
Oven-ready
Todd Solondz’s Wiener-Dog is billed as a ‘dark comedy’ although it is far more dark than comic. If pressed to…
Recycling the avant-garde
One overcast afternoon in late July I took a train to Norfolk. It seemed a good time and place to…
Tartan-ing up the arts
Many years ago an arts spokesperson for the SNP launched an extraordinary attack on Scottish Opera, saying, ‘If push comes…
Tartan-ing up the arts
Many years ago an arts spokesperson for the SNP launched an extraordinary attack on Scottish Opera, saying, ‘If push comes…
Northern exposure
As the festival grows, the good acts are harder to find and the prices keep rising to meet the throngs…
Northern exposure
As the festival grows, the good acts are harder to find and the prices keep rising to meet the throngs…
Dorset’s winning formula
Dorset Opera seems to receive far less coverage than the rest of the country-house summer shows, although it is in…
Dorset’s winning formula
Dorset Opera seems to receive far less coverage than the rest of the country-house summer shows, although it is in…
Funny is dangerous
‘I’m off now,’ says Michael Heath, signing off from his selection of Desert Island Discs on Radio 4, ‘to go…
Funny is dangerous
‘I’m off now,’ says Michael Heath, signing off from his selection of Desert Island Discs on Radio 4, ‘to go…
The decade of Delia
Proof that someone has really made it as a TV historian comes, I would suggest, when they join the likes…
Sculptures at Barangaroo
The most significant enhancement to Sydney Harbour since the restoration of Walsh Bay, the Barangaroo development is coming into its…
Visions of suburbia
Art is aspiring; hungry; acutely aware of what it could become, and of what it could lack; longs for safety…
Corn again
The Carer is a Hungarian-British co-production about a cantankerous old thesp (Brian Cox) and the young Hungarian woman (Coco König)…
Snakes and ladders
In Luis Buñuel’s 1962 film, the ‘exterminating angel’ of the title is a mystery illness. A debilitating virus — much…
Beauty and the banal
In 1965 William Eggleston took the first colour photograph that, he felt, really succeeded. The location was outside a supermarket…
Losing the plot
Consider it commercially. So powerful is the pull of the Potter franchise that the characters could simply re-enact the plot…
Poetry in motion
For almost 60 years, whatever the political weather, Russia and Britain have maintained mutually assured respect as far as ballet…
