Arts
The son also rises
The day before I’m due to meet Ferdinand Kingsley, actor son of Sir Ben, he sends me a message to…
Unsettling meditations
The Blyth Gallery is situated in the Sherfield Building, deep in the South Kensington campus of Imperial College London. The…
The son also rises
The day before I’m due to meet Ferdinand Kingsley, actor son of Sir Ben, he sends me a message to…
Unsettling meditations
The Blyth Gallery is situated in the Sherfield Building, deep in the South Kensington campus of Imperial College London. The…
Study in spectacle
In a dance world that has chosen to dispense with stylistic and semantic subtleties, ‘narrative ballet’ and ‘story ballet’ are…
Power of ritual
This week, I have been mostly listening to Parsifal. Not the St Matthew Passion, which is my usual Passiontide fare.…
Power of ritual
This week, I have been mostly listening to Parsifal. Not the St Matthew Passion, which is my usual Passiontide fare.…
Coming out of the shadows
Niru Ratnam highlights the revival of interest in artists who were popular in the 1960s and 1970s
Old man’s game
It is coming to something when relatively young pop stars die not of drugs or misadventure but, essentially, of old…
Hard lessons
You may not have heard of Goldie. He’s an actor and singer whose name refers to the bullion with which…
The gardens of Kent
How important is William Kent (1685–1748)? He’s not exactly a household name and yet this English painter and architect, apprenticed…
Going places
It’s been a spring tradition for several years now for English National Opera to present small-scale productions in various venues…
Road to redemption
If the very first scene of Calvary doesn’t immediately draw you in there’s every chance there is something seriously wrong…
Women at war
Sunday nights. What are they for? Eggs. Tea. Toast. Nerves about the week ahead. Something comforting on TV. But comfort…
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…
