Arts
Listen and learn
Much praise has been lavished on Radio 2’s 500 Words short-story competition, the winners to be announced on Friday’s Chris…
Past lives
Eighty-seven Hackford Road, SW9, is unremarkable but for a blue plaque telling the world that Vincent van Gogh once lived…
Past lives
Eighty-seven Hackford Road, SW9, is unremarkable but for a blue plaque telling the world that Vincent van Gogh once lived…
Past lives
Eighty-seven Hackford Road, SW9, is unremarkable but for a blue plaque telling the world that Vincent van Gogh once lived…
Firmly in focus
Lloyd Evans talks to the good-natured theatre director Polly Teale
Running out of time
If I live as long as my father, I’ll be checking out on 9 December 2017. Since every man in…
Square dance
Josef Albers (1888–1976) is best known for his long engagement with the square, which he painted in exquisite variation more…
Rare treat
In Venice, around 1552, Titian began work on a series of six paintings for King Philip II of Spain, each…
Balanchinian ideal
George Balanchine’s Serenade, the manifesto of 20th-century neoclassical choreography, requires a deep understanding of both its complex stylistic nuances and…
Loss of heart
In all its minute details, Der Rosenkavalier is rooted in a painstakingly stylised version of Rococo Vienna that, paradoxically, is…
Brain power
How do you write a play? Here’s one theory. Put a guy up a tree, throw rocks at him, get…
Love actually
When you see the latest corporate entertainment juggernaut hurtling at you, what are your options? When I saw X-Men: Days…
Alcohol overload
According to its executive producer Griff Rhys Jones, A Poet in New York (BBC2, Sunday) sought to rescue Dylan Thomas…
The lives of others
Tucked away in the schedules, just before midday, just after midweek (on Thursday), just four lines in the Radio Times,…
Pony tales
‘The natural aids to horsemanship are the hands, the legs, the body and the voice.’ But a Thelwell pony sometimes…
Pony tales
‘The natural aids to horsemanship are the hands, the legs, the body and the voice.’ But a Thelwell pony sometimes…
Pony tales
‘The natural aids to horsemanship are the hands, the legs, the body and the voice.’ But a Thelwell pony sometimes…
Balanchinian ideal
George Balanchine’s Serenade, the manifesto of 20th-century neoclassical choreography, requires a deep understanding of both its complex stylistic nuances and…
Running out of time
If I live as long as my father, I’ll be checking out on 9 December 2017. Since every man in…
Running out of time
If I live as long as my father, I’ll be checking out on 9 December 2017. Since every man in…
New ways of seeing
Andrew Lambirth talks to Justin Partyka, whose photographs show Constable Country in an unexpected light
Weird and wonderful
In many respects the average art-lover remains a Victorian, and the Florentine Renaissance is one area in which that is…
The spiritual in landscape
‘Valleys breathe, heaven and earth move together,/ daisies push inches of yellow air, vegetables tremble,/ grass shimmers green…’ The characteristic…
Snap happy
Before there was Hello!, OK! and Closer, there was Oggi. Oggi was the magazine my Italian mother used to flick…
The quiet man
Shigeru Ban is the celebrated architect who refuses to become a celebrity. Thus, at 57, his career has run opposite…
