Arts
Voices in my head
I did not mean to snort so loudly. There I was watching the amazing Simon Russell Beale in King Lear…
Voices in my head
I did not mean to snort so loudly. There I was watching the amazing Simon Russell Beale in King Lear…
Perfect harmony
To curate a festival these days is to put oneself in the firing line. There is every chance that all…
Perfect harmony
To curate a festival these days is to put oneself in the firing line. There is every chance that all…
Family guy
Batman is 75. Peter Hoskin considers the septuagenarian’s enduring appeal
Just say noh
One of the proudest boasts to come from Britten HQ in Aldeburgh during the composer’s anniversary last year was that…
Hanoverian trail
The 300th anniversary of George I coming to the British throne on 1 August 1714 is big news in his…
King of cut-outs
Artists who live long enough to enjoy a late period of working will often produce art that is radically different…
Mothers’ ruin
Rewrite the history books! Tradition tells us that kitchen-sink drama began in 1956 with Look Back in Anger. A season…
Insult to women
The Other Woman is not just an extremely bad film but also a wholly reprehensible one (she says, with her…
Tricks of the trade
Television executives must be longing to make a programme about estate agents that casts the agents in a good light.…
From the heart
It’s a shame Dolly Parton has never gone into politics. She’s someone who’s lived her life very much in the…
Vive la différence!
‘London,’ says Jean Paul Gaultier, ‘was my vitamin. I love the freedom of London…The energy, the character, all the people…
Vive la différence!
‘London,’ says Jean Paul Gaultier, ‘was my vitamin. I love the freedom of London…The energy, the character, all the people…
Vive la différence!
‘London,’ says Jean Paul Gaultier, ‘was my vitamin. I love the freedom of London…The energy, the character, all the people…
Glorious Veronese
The National Gallery’s exhibition succeeds triumphantly, says Andrew Lambirth
The son also rises
Francesca Steele talks to Ferdinand Kingsley about his family and his future
Power of ritual
This week, I have been mostly listening to Parsifal. Not the St Matthew Passion, which is my usual Passiontide fare.…
Gleeful romp
There’s a great deal to disapprove of in Gounod’s Faust. It breaks down a pillar of western literature and whisks…
Study in spectacle
In a dance world that has chosen to dispense with stylistic and semantic subtleties, ‘narrative ballet’ and ‘story ballet’ are…
Scholastic challenge
Another Country was an instant response to Anthony Blunt’s exposure in 1979 as a Marxist spy. Julian Mitchell set out…
A leap too far
Have you seen that pizza with a cheeseburger crust? If not, just imagine a normal pizza, except where the pizza…
Female strength
God bless the BBC. And I’m not being entirely sarcastic here. There are some things the BBC does very well…
Easter thoughts
Given the decline of Christian belief in the UK, it’s surprising to discover there’s quite so much about the Easter…
Unsettling meditations
The Blyth Gallery is situated in the Sherfield Building, deep in the South Kensington campus of Imperial College London. The…
