Arts
A history of remembrance
One fight that seems to have been won is that spearheaded by the War Memorials Trust to preserve the thousands…
We will remember them
One fight that seems to have been won is that spearheaded by the War Memorials Trust to preserve the thousands…
We will remember them
One fight that seems to have been won is that spearheaded by the War Memorials Trust to preserve the thousands…
Pitch perfect
To go from the second day of the England v. India Test match at Lord’s to the Albert Hall for…
Pitch perfect
To go from the second day of the England v. India Test match at Lord’s to the Albert Hall for…
How conductors keep getting better at 90
Matthew Stadlen talks to three conductors about growing old very gracefully
The Lunchbox: a love story based on food and free postage
Was Kate due a grounding after the awards extravaganza of Revolutionary Road and The Reader? Because Labor Day (12A) slipped…
Natalia Osipova interview: ‘I'm not interested in diamond tiaras on stage’
Giannandrea Poesio talks to Natalia Osipova about her ballet-based philosophy
When Mr and Mrs Clever-Nasty-and-Rich met Mr and Mrs Thick-Sweet-and-Poor
Torben Betts, head boy at Alan Ayckbourn’s unofficial school of apprentices, has written at least a dozen plays I’ve never…
Malevich: Are Tate visitors ready for this master of modernism?
Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935) is one of the founding fathers of Modernism, and as such entirely deserves the in-depth treatment with…
I can’t see the point of Glyndebourne’s La traviata
One of the highlights of last year’s Glyndebourne Festival was the revival of Richard Jones’s Falstaff, spruced up and invigorated…
The problem with Believe is you simply won’t believe any of it - unless you’re a child
The trouble with Believe is that, unless you are ten years old or under, which I’m assuming you are not,…
In which James Delingpole gets down with the kids, finds they’re sex-obsessed…
If there’s one thing everyone knows about BBC comedy it’s that it’s going downhill. According to Danny Cohen, now Director…
Does Radio 3 need a new controller?
Where next for Radio 3? Last Friday was the First Night of this year’s Proms season but it was the…
Alexander Pope, inventor of celebrity
‘The Picture of the Prime Minister hangs above the Chimney of his own Closet, but I have seen that of…
The art of celebrity
‘The Picture of the Prime Minister hangs above the Chimney of his own Closet, but I have seen that of…
Summer viewing
Was Kate due a grounding after the awards extravaganza of Revolutionary Road and The Reader? Because Labor Day (12A) slipped…
The art of celebrity
‘The Picture of the Prime Minister hangs above the Chimney of his own Closet, but I have seen that of…
Summer viewing
Was Kate due a grounding after the awards extravaganza of Revolutionary Road and The Reader? Because Labor Day (12A) slipped…
The home of Holland’s celebrity paintings gets a makeover
Laura Gascoigne on the treasures in the newly reopened Mauritshaus museum in The Hague
Is Handel’s Messiah anti-Semitic?
The Hallelujah Chorus crops up in the most unexpected places, says Michael Marissen in his new book about Handel’s Messiah.…
Had Hollywood not lured him away, Dennis Hopper could have made his name as a photographer
In an age when photographs have swollen out of all proportion to their significance, and are mounted on wall-sized light…
‘Artmaking is a drug’ - interview with poet Paul Muldoon
Olivia Cole talks to Paul Muldoon about the extraordinary buzz that writing gives him
Buxton Festival sticks its neck out with two rarities by Dvorak and Gluck
Dvorak’s The Jacobin and Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, the two operas that opened this year’s Buxton Festival, are both relative…
Richard Bean doesn’t believe in humans - just weasels, snakes, rats and vultures
Mr Bean, one of our greatest comic exports, has an alter ego. The second Mr Bean, forename Richard, is the…
