Arts
Contours of the mind
In Australia, I have been told, the female pubic area is sometimes known as a ‘mapatasi’ because its triangular shape…
Net effect
As a documentary-maker, Werner Herzog is a master of tone. His widely parodied voiceovers — breathy, raspy, ominous — are…
Halloween hire
To use a vulgar phrase, I can’t get my head around this exhibition. It seems anything but ‘vulgar’. Daintily laid…
Romantic modern
In 1932 Paul Nash posed the question, is it possible to ‘go modern’ and still ‘be British?’ — a conundrum…
Going Dutch
In debates about what should and should not be taught in art school, the subject of survival skills almost never…
March of the makers
Until earlier this year, a squat sculpture nestled rather unobtrusively outside 20 Manchester Square in Marylebone, an address once made…
March of the makers
Until earlier this year, a squat sculpture nestled rather unobtrusively outside 20 Manchester Square in Marylebone, an address once made…
Sweet and sour
Great subject, terminal illness. Popular dramas like Love Story, Terms of Endearment and My Night With Reg handle the issue…
Sweet and sour
Great subject, terminal illness. Popular dramas like Love Story, Terms of Endearment and My Night With Reg handle the issue…
A night at the circus
The Royal Opera’s latest production is Shostakovich’s The Nose and to paraphrase Mark Steyn, whatever else can be said about…
A night at the circus
The Royal Opera’s latest production is Shostakovich’s The Nose and to paraphrase Mark Steyn, whatever else can be said about…
Identity crisis
You may not listen to them every year. Or even to every lecture in the current series. But the survival…
Identity crisis
You may not listen to them every year. Or even to every lecture in the current series. But the survival…
The lying game
‘Adam Curtis believed that 200,000 Guardian readers watching BBC2 could change the world. But this was a fantasy. In fact,…
Loach at his most Loach
I, Daniel Blake is a Ken Loach film about a Newcastle joiner who can’t work but faces a welfare bureaucracy…
Digging for the truth
The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb may well be one of the 20th century’s great stories — but naturally that doesn’t…
Shady past
David Hockney: It is a kind of joke, but I really mean it when I say Caravaggio invented Hollywood lighting.…
TV
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Ko wai Koe (Who Are You) 2005 from the series The Odyssey of Captain Cook by Marian Maguire
When colourful Tasmanian identity David Walsh announced his intention to build an art gallery in Hobart, open to the public…
High and low
‘Besides feeble writing, there is a mixture of tragic-comedy and buffoonery in it, which Apostolo Zeno and Metastasio had banished…
Ziggurat of bilge
Ella Hickson’s new play analyses our relationship with oil using the sketch format. First, there’s a candlelit soap opera set…
The power of song
‘I went in at seven and came out aged 22,’ said Brian as he looked back on the day in…
Face time
As a chat-up line it was at least unusual. On 8 January 1927, a 46-year-old man approached a young woman…
Shady past
David Hockney: It is a kind of joke, but I really mean it when I say Caravaggio invented Hollywood lighting.…
Face time
As a chat-up line it was at least unusual. On 8 January 1927, a 46-year-old man approached a young woman…
