Arts
Snap, crackle and pop
As you go into the new Wellcome Collection exhibition, Electricity: The Spark of Life, you might have in mind a…
Pump up the volume
Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only the End of the World is one of those angst-ridden dramas focusing on what is commonly…
American psyche
The latest exhibition at the Royal Academy is entitled America after the Fall. It deals with painting in the United…
On the make
Rudolfo Paolozzi was a great maker. In the summer, he worked almost without stopping in the family’s ice-cream shop, making…
Comic effect
Borag Thungg, Earthlets! If those words mean something to you, then congratulations — you are leading a good life. If…
Comic effect
Borag Thungg, Earthlets! If those words mean something to you, then congratulations — you are leading a good life. If…
Let’s talk about sex
What does it take to become a prostitute? Youth, beauty, courage, sexual allure, a love of money, a need for…
Let’s talk about sex
What does it take to become a prostitute? Youth, beauty, courage, sexual allure, a love of money, a need for…
Tough love
Frank Martin is one of those composers whose work seems to survive only by virtue of constantly renewed neglect. His…
Tough love
Frank Martin is one of those composers whose work seems to survive only by virtue of constantly renewed neglect. His…
Olden but golden
This weekend Brian Matthew will present his last-ever Sounds of the 60s show on Radio 2. Now 88, he’s been…
Olden but golden
This weekend Brian Matthew will present his last-ever Sounds of the 60s show on Radio 2. Now 88, he’s been…
Occupational hazard
Rival law-enforcement agencies arguing about which of them should investigate a murder has, of course, been a staple of crime…
Thoroughly modern Monteverdi
‘Eppur si muove’ — And yet it moves. Galileo’s defiant insistence that the Earth revolves round the Sun, his refusal…
Three ages of man
Moonlight is, in fact, a traditional story about identity, and finding out who you are, but it has rarely been…
The good, the bad and the ugly
Vladimir Putin notoriously declared the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 to be one of the greatest disasters of…
British sea power
The story so far: in 1986 English National Opera hired Jonathan Miller to direct Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado. The…
United nations
The Indian Prime Minister has twigged something that President Trump has yet to understand. On Monday, celebrated as World Radio…
Fatal attraction
Recently on holiday I did a very bad thing. I nearly left the Fawn to die on a precipitous mountain…
Stuffed but dissatisfied
Sandi Toksvig’s new play opens in a Gravesend care home where five grannies and a temporary nurse are threatened by…
Vincent van Gogh Wheat Field with Cypresses, Saint-Rémy, 1889. The National Gallery London
Make sure you are in Melbourne between late April and early July to see the important Van Gogh exhibition coming…
Thoroughly modern Monteverdi
‘Eppur si muove’ — And yet it moves. Galileo’s defiant insistence that the Earth revolves round the Sun, his refusal…
Three ages of man
Moonlight is, in fact, a traditional story about identity, and finding out who you are, but it has rarely been…
The good, the bad and the ugly
Vladimir Putin notoriously declared the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 to be one of the greatest disasters of…
Stuffed but dissatisfied
Sandi Toksvig’s new play opens in a Gravesend care home where five grannies and a temporary nurse are threatened by…
