Arts
Don Q lite
Superstar Carlos Acosta makes little or no reference to Don Quixote’s established history in his programme note about the genesis…
Chris Ingram: from messenger boy to museum benefactor
Andrew Lambirth meets Chris Ingram, the collector behind a much-lauded museum in Woking
Jeff Koons's work is childish — just like us
The contrast could not have been more acute. It came the day after a press release from Christie’s New York…
Henry van de Velde — the man who invented modernism
In the Musée du Cinquantenaire, a grand gallery on the green edge of Brussels, those bureaucratic Belgians are welcoming home…
English embroidery: the forgotten wonder of the medieval world
Think of an art at which the English have excelled and I doubt you would come up with the word…
The grandson of Scott’s deputy makes music in Antarctica
As his father lay dying some six years ago, Julian Broke-Evans promised him that he would ‘keep telling the story’,…
The boom in private museums
In the past ten years museums of modern and contemporary art have proliferated around the world. New institutions have appeared…
Woody Allen's new film will so knock your socks off, you will never retrieve them again
Blue Jasmine is the latest film from Woody Allen who, at various stages of his career, has been declared on-form,…
Barking in Essex: a hit with hen-night hysterics
How appropriate. Barking in Essex, a farce about gangsters, has been dishonestly billed as ‘a new comedy’. The script was…
Why do people talk such nonsense when describing opera? American Lulu and Le Nozze di Figaro reviewed
Why would anyone want to adapt Berg’s Lulu, a masterpiece even if a problematic one? According to John Fulljames, who…
Music at Mass is theological warfare by other means
How many battles have been fought over sacred music throughout history? The noise you make when you worship is a…
Downton Abbey is now a weird parallel universe of the royal family. Except with less action
Are you following the world’s most watched aristocratic family? If you recall, they recently took into their ranks a member…
A modern take on Victoriana
Britain is still an essentially Victorian country (see Daily Mail for details). So it’s no surprise that we keep returning…
Look back in laughter
Britain is still an essentially Victorian country (see Daily Mail for details). So it’s no surprise that we keep returning…
Look back in laughter
Britain is still an essentially Victorian country (see Daily Mail for details). So it’s no surprise that we keep returning…
Yorkshire: England’s sculptural heartland in the north
William Cook is inspired by England’s sculptural heartland in Yorkshire, just as Moore and Hepworth were
David Tress: an artist of independent spirit
Like all artists of independent spirit, David Tress (born 1955) resists categorisation. He has been called a Romantic and a…
Hysteria is a pile-up of unmotivated absurdities
Terry Johnson’s acclaimed farce Hysteria opens in Sigmund Freud’s Hampstead home in 1938. The godfather of psychobabble is ambushed by…
Mark Ravenhill’s take on Voltaire’s Candide
Ah yes, Candide, the adventures of an innocent abroad in ‘the best of all possible worlds’, as philosophers of the…
Turandot is a disgusting opera that is beyond redemption
It’s a cynical start to the Royal Opera’s season to have this 1984 production of Puccini’s last opera Turandot. Not…
No rest for Diana - the biopic of the late princess is so inept it's not even hagiography
Someone who knows their Dianaology will have to fill me in – did this actually happen? The late Princess Di…
James Delingpole: As a Brummie, I am aggrieved with Peaky Blinders
You wait a whole lifetime for a lavishly shot, starrily cast, mega-budget gangster drama set in Birmingham to come along.…
Blitz Requiem première in St Paul’s
Of all folk memories the Blitz remains one of the most enduring. In the autumn of 1940 the Luftwaffe strafed…
The pity of war
Of all folk memories the Blitz remains one of the most enduring. In the autumn of 1940 the Luftwaffe strafed…
The pity of war
Of all folk memories the Blitz remains one of the most enduring. In the autumn of 1940 the Luftwaffe strafed…
