Arts
The way we were
Four could have been dubbed the Frank Radio network this week as the sharp skills of Sue MacGregor, Alan Dein…
Transformations
South Kensington is teeming with butterflies at the moment, or at least the specially constructed tropical enclosure at the Natural…
Transformations
South Kensington is teeming with butterflies at the moment, or at least the specially constructed tropical enclosure at the Natural…
Transformations
South Kensington is teeming with butterflies at the moment, or at least the specially constructed tropical enclosure at the Natural…
Old man’s game
It is coming to something when relatively young pop stars die not of drugs or misadventure but, essentially, of old…
Old man’s game
It is coming to something when relatively young pop stars die not of drugs or misadventure but, essentially, of old…
Best in show
Britain may have educated the most talented curators, but, as Jack Wakefield says, we can’t always keep them
Bad behaviour
W.H.Auden once wrote: ‘Real artists are not nice people. All their best feelings go into their work and life has…
Double trouble
I should warn you that if you go see The Double it is one of those films that will trouble…
Hidden presence
One of the paintings in Arturo Di Stefano’s impressive new show at Purdy Hicks Gallery is called ‘Santa Croce’ and…
Acts of faith
It seems suitable that just round the corner from the Zurbarán exhibition at the Palais des Beaux Arts is the…
Character differences
I remain puzzled that, so far as I know, no daily or weekly paper carries reviews of the New York…
Visual overload
What’s in a definition? As far as theatre dance is concerned, quite a lot. Labelling — and often labelling for…
Songs of praise
I Can’t Sing! is a parody of The X Factor, which already parodies itself at every turn. Quite a tough…
Bad timing
For me, by far the most surprising revelation in Martin Durkin’s documentary Nigel Farage: Who Are You? (Channel 4, Monday)…
Walk on the wild side
After a walk in Richmond Park beset by rush-hour traffic, the Heathrow flight path and a strange swarm of flying…
Steeling the show
Visitors to Chatsworth House this spring might wonder if they have stumbled through the looking-glass. The estate’s rolling parkland has…
Steeling the show
Visitors to Chatsworth House this spring might wonder if they have stumbled through the looking-glass. The estate’s rolling parkland has…
Steeling the show
Visitors to Chatsworth House this spring might wonder if they have stumbled through the looking-glass. The estate’s rolling parkland has…
Visual overload
What’s in a definition? As far as theatre dance is concerned, quite a lot. Labelling — and often labelling for…
Bad behaviour
W.H.Auden once wrote: ‘Real artists are not nice people. All their best feelings go into their work and life has…
Bad behaviour
W.H.Auden once wrote: ‘Real artists are not nice people. All their best feelings go into their work and life has…
Women’s world
Shakespeare did not give his female characters pivotal roles, but some of his contemporaries did, as Lloyd Evans discovers
An eye for the ladies
Ray Cooney, the master of farce, is back. These days he’s in the modest Menier rather than the wonderful West…
Bearing witness
Last week, three exhibitions celebrating the art of Germany; this week, a show commemorating the first world war fought against…
