Arts
Remembrance of things past
The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled Hosseini, has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. Now it arrives on…
Dress worn by Yvonne Kenny as Armida in Rinaldo
If you think you haven’t got anything to wear, then Opera Australia may be able to help you. At the…
Ideal homes
Artists, poets and philosophers have not paid much attention to Milton Keynes …although comedians have. This urban experiment has been…
Acting with a capital ‘A’
Let’s be clear: Jackie is a better performance than it is a film, although I suspect the performance will carry…
Great leaps forward
In the 1940s Lucian Freud took another young painter, Sandra Blow, up to the top of a bombed church in…
Safe and sound
This week the Southbank Centre began its ‘Belief and Beyond Belief’ festival — a series of concerts and talks claiming…
Safe and sound
This week the Southbank Centre began its ‘Belief and Beyond Belief’ festival — a series of concerts and talks claiming…
Remembrance of things past
The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled Hosseini, has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. Now it arrives on…
Remembrance of things past
The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled Hosseini, has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. Now it arrives on…
Death rattle
The Barbican website warns us that Ligeti’s opera Le grand macabre ‘contains very strong language and adult themes’. The strong…
Death rattle
The Barbican website warns us that Ligeti’s opera Le grand macabre ‘contains very strong language and adult themes’. The strong…
Spot the ball
The purest form of radio is probably sports commentating, creating pictures in the mind purely through language so that by…
Spot the ball
The purest form of radio is probably sports commentating, creating pictures in the mind purely through language so that by…
Dual control
Revolting (Tuesdays) is the BBC2 comedy series that spawned the now-infamous sketch ‘Real Housewives of Isis’. It has been watched…
The xx: I See You
The xx is a trio of Londoners whose eponymous first album, released in 2009, has defined the way pop music…
The xx: I See You
The xx is a trio of Londoners whose eponymous first album, released in 2009, has defined the way pop music…
Haus of ill repute
Here in Munich, in the gallery that Hitler built, this year’s big hit show is a spectacular display of modern…
Caveats be damned
You will have registered the buzz surrounding La La Land and clocked its seven Golden Globe wins and 11 Bafta…
The Bourne identity
From a film about ballet to a ballet about film. In reworking the 1948 Powell and Pressburger classic The Red…
Shape shifter
Victor Pasmore once told me how he greeted Pablo Picasso at Victoria station. The great man had come to Britain…
Word perfect
All that’s needed for Radio 4’s One to One series (Tuesdays) to succeed is a sharp-eyed interviewer, ready with the…
Shall we dance?
‘Blimey! How on earth did they think of that?’ is unlikely to be anyone’s response to Our Dancing Town (BBC2,…
Drama queen
God, what a dusty old chatterbox Schiller is. Like Bernard Shaw, he can’t put a character on stage without churning…
Julia Baird
In 2015, Queen Elizabeth II became the longest reigning sovereign in British history surpassing Queen Victoria who is the subject…
Caveats be damned
You will have registered the buzz surrounding La La Land and clocked its seven Golden Globe wins and 11 Bafta…
