Arts
Mixed blessings
As the boundary between auction house and art dealer blurs yet further, with auctioneers acting increasingly by private treaty as…
The Wright stuff
Roger Wright’s precipitate departure from both Radio Three and the Proms came as a surprise. At first the news was…
Over the top
Fashion Victim — the Musical!. There’s a title that’s been waiting to be used for ages. The Cinema Museum is…
Virtuoso Wagner
It seems a very short time since I interviewed Richard Farnes about Opera North’s planned Ring cycle, the dramas to…
Glorious Glastonbury
‘Charlie. E. Powder,’ said the friendly, helpful man working his way through the crowd during the mindblowing Friday-night headline set…
Run away
If it were up to me this would be called ‘The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window, Fell, and…
Secrets and lies
BBC2’s The Honourable Woman (Thursday) began with a rather portentous voice-over bringing us the unsurprising news that ‘We all have…
It’s all Danish to me
Out there in the great ether there’s a whole new world of radio beyond the stations of the BBC and…
Points of view
Bridges aren’t necessarily something you think of as being beautiful, particularly if you consider them primarily as the means to…
Points of view
Bridges aren’t necessarily something you think of as being beautiful, particularly if you consider them primarily as the means to…
Points of view
Bridges aren’t necessarily something you think of as being beautiful, particularly if you consider them primarily as the means to…
The Wright stuff
Roger Wright’s precipitate departure from both Radio Three and the Proms came as a surprise. At first the news was…
The Wright stuff
Roger Wright’s precipitate departure from both Radio Three and the Proms came as a surprise. At first the news was…
Glorious Glastonbury
‘Charlie. E. Powder,’ said the friendly, helpful man working his way through the crowd during the mindblowing Friday-night headline set…
Glorious Glastonbury
‘Charlie. E. Powder,’ said the friendly, helpful man working his way through the crowd during the mindblowing Friday-night headline set…
Tears of a clown
Stand-up comedian John Bishop tells Matthew Stadlen about the depression that triggered his career
Talking shop
Nice one, Roy. Across the West End secret toasts are being drunk to the England supremo for his exquisitely crafted…
Super nature
For decades I’ve been aware of the work of Keith Grant (born 1930), but it is only in recent years…
Black comedy
Fwoooosh! That, were someone to write a strip about it, would be the sound of a thousand comic books going…
No laughing matter
Swans, swans, more swans. If the lifespan of a dance critic were calculated by the number of performances of Swan…
Sleazy does it
This season has already seen Manon Lescaut appear in several different operatic guises across the UK, but it was Covent…
Hit and miss
As far as ‘jukebox films’ go, Mamma Mia! was a riot, Sunshine on Leith was tolerable, just about, while Walking…
Serpents’ tale
Did you know that the 8th-century Kingdom of Northumbria was the epicentre of an international exotic reptile trade? I only…
Out of this world
First, a confession. Even an ardent radio addict can enjoy a fortnight away from the airwaves, disconnected, switched off, unlistening.…
Modern manners
Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress has been a rich resource for artists. Film-makers recognise his modern moral subjects as an ancestor…
