Arts
Home is where the art is
A day trip to the Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne is a summer pleasure, and two concurrent shows are proving…
The inspirational and the sublime
‘I recollect nothing so much as a solemn — bright — warm — fresh landscape by Wilson, which swims in…
Great expectations
Last week, the feast of long-awaited dance events on offer echoed bygone days when London life was dominated by the…
Work in progress
The Salzburg Festival’s reputation might largely be one of cultural conservatism, but it made an impressive commitment to new works…
In bed with the jihadis
War can reshape the medium of television. The First Gulf War was a landmark moment in broadcasting: CNN had reporters…
Six appeal
It’s happened almost by stealth but the number of listeners to 6 Music has now overtaken Radio 3, creeping up…
Space invaders
Jeff Koons’s ‘Bear and Policeman’ has been used to advertise the Hayward Gallery’s latest show The Human Factor (until 7…
Culture buff
Popes come and popes go but generally not after only 33 days; which is what happened to Albino Luciani, elected…
Space invaders
Jeff Koons’s ‘Bear and Policeman’ has been used to advertise the Hayward Gallery’s latest show The Human Factor (until 7…
Space invaders
Jeff Koons’s ‘Bear and Policeman’ has been used to advertise the Hayward Gallery’s latest show The Human Factor (until 7…
Great expectations
Last week, the feast of long-awaited dance events on offer echoed bygone days when London life was dominated by the…
Loose, wild and free
Martin Gayford talks to Wynton Marsalis about the rigours of playing jazz
Family ties
One of the many delightful aspects of having children is that you can get them to do things you are…
Flower power
Rather than brave the boos and the first reprise of Frank Castorf’s half-hearted Ring at Bayreuth, I decided to pay…
Relative values
John Northcote Nash (1893–1977) was the younger brother of Paul Nash (1889–1946), and has been long overshadowed by Paul, though…
Monster in our midst
Wakolda is not a sunny film for a sunny day, just so you’re aware, but as there is so little…
Simple pleasures
According to some textbooks, one thing the fathers of Soviet choreography hastened to remove from ballet was that awkward-looking language…
In a spin
Streetcar. One word is enough to conjure an icon. Tennessee Williams’s finest play, written in the 1940s, is about a…
Bleak and brutal
Gomorrah (Sky Atlantic, Monday), the new, must-see Mafioso series, started promisingly. We met two hoods — one young, shaven-headed, good-looking;…
Hearing aids
Our hearing is the first of our senses to develop while we are in the womb. It’s the first connection…
Edinburgh rocks
And they’re off. The mighty caravan of romantic desperadoes, radical egoists, stadium wannabes, struggling superstars and vanity crackheads is on…
Edinburgh rocks
And they’re off. The mighty caravan of romantic desperadoes, radical egoists, stadium wannabes, struggling superstars and vanity crackheads is on…
Edinburgh rocks
And they’re off. The mighty caravan of romantic desperadoes, radical egoists, stadium wannabes, struggling superstars and vanity crackheads is on…
Simple pleasures
According to some textbooks, one thing the fathers of Soviet choreography hastened to remove from ballet was that awkward-looking language…
Family ties
One of the many delightful aspects of having children is that you can get them to do things you are…
