Arts
Tough love
The Royal Court Theatre, the Young Vic Theatre and the London Library (above) are buildings of varied character and rich…
Hopkins to the rescue
It’s a long time, a very, very long time, since I bought a Coldplay album. Has any band of the…
Hopkins to the rescue
It’s a long time, a very, very long time, since I bought a Coldplay album. Has any band of the…
Northern soul
Matthew Stadlen talks to the violinist Nicola Benedetti about what drew her to Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy
Worshipping Bach
When I was first learning about classical music, 50 years ago, the scene was more streamlined than it is now.…
Viola and St Paul’s
Deans are a strange breed. Growing up in the Church of England, I met a wide range, their cultural tastes…
Discerning eye
Earlier this year, I sat down and watched Kenneth Clark’s groundbreaking TV series Civilisation. I vaguely remember when it was…
Irresistible turkey
Grace of Monaco, the Grace Kelly biopic starring Nicole Kidman, is an absolute joy, and I highly recommend it. Unless…
Dark night of the soul
Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites is an audacious work, much more so than many others that advertise their audacity. It deals…
Thinking games
Forget the pedantic classifications of genres, styles and schools. When it comes to dance performances, it all boils down to…
Touching from a distance
Lionel is a king of the New York art scene. An internationally renowned connoisseur, he travels the world creating and…
Dark tales
The work of John Banville — Booker-winning novelist and impeccably high-minded literary critic — might seem an unlikely source for…
Royal mail
It’s rare for the public to be given access to the Royal Archives. They are housed in the forbidding Round…
Royal mail
It’s rare for the public to be given access to the Royal Archives. They are housed in the forbidding Round…
Royal mail
It’s rare for the public to be given access to the Royal Archives. They are housed in the forbidding Round…
Thinking games
Forget the pedantic classifications of genres, styles and schools. When it comes to dance performances, it all boils down to…
Worshipping Bach
When I was first learning about classical music, 50 years ago, the scene was more streamlined than it is now.…
Worshipping Bach
When I was first learning about classical music, 50 years ago, the scene was more streamlined than it is now.…
Camera shy
Award-winner Bill Forsyth tells William Cook why he was happy to walk away from film-making
Dazzling caper
Joan Littlewood’s greatest disservice to the theatre was to champion ‘the right to fail’, which encouraged writers and directors to…
People and their prophets
On paper, Moses und Aron might seem intractable and abstract: a 12-tone score setting a libretto that meditates on God,…
Land of Overkill
If a gang of knife-wielding toddlers ever presses you for the name of the best Disney film, Sleeping Beauty (1959)…
Dipping should be outlawed
Admit it. Say it! ‘My name is Blah and I am a boxaholic.’ Life on hold, marriage in bits, job…
Out of the shadows
Lynn Chadwick was born 100 years ago in London, and died in 2003 at his Gloucestershire home, Lypiatt Park, where…
Comic genius
On Harry and Paul’s Story of the Twos (BBC 2, Sunday), there was a particularly cruel sketch in which Paul…
