Arts
Girls v. ghosts
From the moment this all-female reboot of Ghostbusters was announced, the fan-boy panic set in: where will it end? An…
Privates on parade
In 1927, Georgia O’Keeffe announced that she would like her next exhibition to be ‘so magnificently vulgar that all the…
Where should this music be?
This must rank as the most heartbreaking example of premature chicken-counting in musical history. ‘Gotter has made a marvellous free…
Where should this music be?
This must rank as the most heartbreaking example of premature chicken-counting in musical history. ‘Gotter has made a marvellous free…
Notes on the type
Back in 1997 the New Yorker published a piece lampooning the proliferation of ‘Notes on the Type’ — those oleaginous…
Notes on the type
Back in 1997 the New Yorker published a piece lampooning the proliferation of ‘Notes on the Type’ — those oleaginous…
My best fiend
Anthony Neilson is an Arts Council favourite known for trivial but impenetrable plays with off-putting names like The Wonderful World…
My best fiend
Anthony Neilson is an Arts Council favourite known for trivial but impenetrable plays with off-putting names like The Wonderful World…
First thing’s first
Leonore is the first version of Beethoven’s Fidelio, and Stephen Medcalf thinks it’s better. ‘What Leonore gives us is more…
First thing’s first
Leonore is the first version of Beethoven’s Fidelio, and Stephen Medcalf thinks it’s better. ‘What Leonore gives us is more…
Sounds of the suburbs
In After the Vote, her talk for this week’s special edition of A Point of View (Radio 4) on the…
Sounds of the suburbs
In After the Vote, her talk for this week’s special edition of A Point of View (Radio 4) on the…
The prodigy
On Tuesday night on Channel 4, a stern male figure peered over his glasses (as equipped with one of those…
I can’t get no Satiesfaction
After peaking at around the tenth instalment, birthday celebrations get progressively less interesting, for their subjects at least. I remember…
Accentuate the positive
Fifty years ago on Monday the World Service programme Outlook was launched as an innovative news and current affairs programme…
Mozart’s operas
A couple of weeks ago Opera Australia celebrated its 60th Anniversary with a gala concert at the Opera House. Surprisingly…
And your point, Professor?
Pop idol turned top boffin Brian Cox doesn’t shy away from the big issues. With programmes such as Wonders of…
Death of the auteur
From the Oscar winning classics of the early Seventies — The French Connection (1971) and The Exorcist (1973) — to…
Double trouble
The Bolshoi Ballet’s wunderkind ballerina Natalia Osipova defied received wisdom when, in 2012, she cast off from the great Moscow…
Erectile dysfunction
Anthony Weiner is the American politician who made a comeback after a sexting scandal and stood for New York mayor.…
Friel good factor
Does anyone believe Brian Friel’s libellous blarney? He portrays Ireland in the 20th century as an economic basket case where…
Echoes of Italy
‘Hidden beauty is best (half seen), faces turned away.’ So noted a young English painter named Winifred Knights in 1924.…
Fifty shades of grey
Grey men in grey overcoats walking through grey architecture. If you had to pick an image to reflect the current…
Death of the auteur
From the Oscar winning classics of the early Seventies — The French Connection (1971) and The Exorcist (1973) — to…
Erectile dysfunction
Anthony Weiner is the American politician who made a comeback after a sexting scandal and stood for New York mayor.…
