Arts

The Heckler: those who doubt the brilliance of Phil Collins are snobs

10 December 2015 3:00 pm

Three boos for those rotten spoilsports who started an online petition against Phil Collins coming out of retirement (there’s already…

The Heckler: those who doubt the brilliance of Phil Collins are snobs

10 December 2015 3:00 pm

Three boos for those rotten spoilsports who started an online petition against Phil Collins coming out of retirement (there’s already…

Bryan Stanley Johnson with a first edition of ‘The Unfortunates’

New word order

5 December 2015 9:00 am

Peter Robins reports from Nottingham on a unique adaptation of a novel by the literary innovator B.S. Johnson

Lost in translation

5 December 2015 9:00 am

About 15 minutes into act one of Jenufa, the student in the next seat leaned over to her companions and…

Bird brained

5 December 2015 9:00 am

For all the billing and cooing on public forums about the Royal Ballet’s The Two Pigeons revival, there’s a silent…

In a class of their own

5 December 2015 9:00 am

Painters and sculptors are highly averse to being labelled. So much so that it seems fairly certain that, if asked,…

Steely, erotic, indomitable: Gemma Chan as Ruth in ‘The Homecoming’

Men behaving badly

5 December 2015 9:00 am

Jamie Lloyd’s production of Pinter’s The Homecoming is a pile of terrific and silly ideas. Mostly terrific. The action takes…

Towering will-o’-the-wisp: Agyness Deyn as Chris Guthrie

The still point

5 December 2015 9:00 am

Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song is the best-remembered title of a short career. Born in 1901, he was dead by…

There will be blood

5 December 2015 9:00 am

It was a stroke of genius to invite Glenda Jackson to make her return to acting as the star of…

Beyond a joke

5 December 2015 9:00 am

Let’s start this week with a joke: ‘You know Mrs Kelly? Do you know Mrs Kelly? Her husband’s that little…

Culture buff

5 December 2015 9:00 am

We are now officially in summer and the beach season. The importance of the beach in our national self-image the…

Towering will-o’-the-wisp: Agyness Deyn as Chris Guthrie

The still point

3 December 2015 3:00 pm

Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song is the best-remembered title of a short career. Born in 1901, he was dead by…

Bryan Stanley Johnson with a first edition of ‘The Unfortunates’

New word order

3 December 2015 3:00 pm

In the basement of a busy café in Hockley, Nottingham, which may not have known exactly what it was letting…

Bird brained

3 December 2015 3:00 pm

For all the billing and cooing on public forums about the Royal Ballet’s The Two Pigeons revival, there’s a silent…

In a class of their own

3 December 2015 3:00 pm

Painters and sculptors are highly averse to being labelled. So much so that it seems fairly certain that, if asked,…

Lost in translation

3 December 2015 3:00 pm

About 15 minutes into act one of Jenufa, the student in the next seat leaned over to her companions and…

Lost in translation

3 December 2015 3:00 pm

About 15 minutes into act one of Jenufa, the student in the next seat leaned over to her companions and…

Steely, erotic, indomitable: Gemma Chan as Ruth in ‘The Homecoming’

Men behaving badly

3 December 2015 3:00 pm

Jamie Lloyd’s production of Pinter’s The Homecoming is a pile of terrific and silly ideas. Mostly terrific. The action takes…

Steely, erotic, indomitable: Gemma Chan as Ruth in ‘The Homecoming’

Men behaving badly

3 December 2015 3:00 pm

Jamie Lloyd’s production of Pinter’s The Homecoming is a pile of terrific and silly ideas. Mostly terrific. The action takes…

There will be blood

3 December 2015 3:00 pm

It was a stroke of genius to invite Glenda Jackson to make her return to acting as the star of…

There will be blood

3 December 2015 3:00 pm

It was a stroke of genius to invite Glenda Jackson to make her return to acting as the star of…

Beyond a joke

3 December 2015 3:00 pm

Let’s start this week with a joke: ‘You know Mrs Kelly? Do you know Mrs Kelly? Her husband’s that little…

Two wheels good: Belgian racing cyclist Eddy Merckx on the track, 1970

The bicycle may have triumphed but it’s far from perfect

28 November 2015 9:00 am

The bicycle may have triumphed over the car but it’s far from perfect, argues Stephen Bayley

‘Lady at the Virginal with a Gentleman’ or ‘The Music Lesson’, 1662–5, by Vermeer

Artistic taste is inversely proportional to political nous

28 November 2015 9:00 am

‘Wherever the British settle, wherever they colonize,’ observed the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon, ‘they carry and will ever carry trial…

Anna Devin as Alcina and Nick Pritchard as Ruggiero in ‘La Liberazione di Ruggiero’ at Brighton Early Music Festival

Has there ever been a better time to be a lover of Baroque opera?

28 November 2015 9:00 am

Time was when early music was a 6 p.m. concert, Baroque began with Bach and ended with Corelli’s Christmas Concerto,…