Arts
One for all
‘Pshaw!’ That was my first reaction to news of the BBC’s new ten-part Sunday night adaptation of The Three Musketeers.…
Farewell, Claudio Abbado
Fellini’s credo ‘the visionary is the only true realist’ could also be applied to the life of Claudio Abbado, who…
Farewell, Claudio Abbado
Fellini’s credo ‘the visionary is the only true realist’ could also be applied to the life of Claudio Abbado, who…
Peak practice
William Cook visits the Kirchner Museum in Davos, the Alpine town where the German Expressionist found refuge and inspiration
Collecting compulsion
About 30 years ago, not long before he died, my father bought an LP of Sir Clifford Curzon playing Schubert’s…
History man
Rediscovering the unduly neglected is one of the chief excitements of those who curate exhibitions and write books. And there’s…
Long division
Of all the West End’s unloved venues the loveliest is the Arts Theatre. It specialises in creaky off-beat plays like…
Putney boy come good
Three things you might not expect of the RSC’s adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Tudor novels. First, Mike Poulton’s plays have…
Fortune’s fool
Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street will set the cat among the pigeons as a number of films do.…
Losing the plot
You know the holiday season is over when, instead of being torn between The X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing…
Uncomfortable truths
‘It put a lot upon us,’ said Christopher Jefferies’s aunt. ‘The ripples went on and did not stop for a…
Dress to impress
People will go to extraordinary lengths to get into a nightclub. Nowadays you must wear something tight, and look slinky.…
Dress to impress
People will go to extraordinary lengths to get into a nightclub. Nowadays you must wear something tight, and look slinky.…
Dress to impress
People will go to extraordinary lengths to get into a nightclub. Nowadays you must wear something tight, and look slinky.…
Collecting compulsion
About 30 years ago, not long before he died, my father bought an LP of Sir Clifford Curzon playing Schubert’s…
Collecting compulsion
About 30 years ago, not long before he died, my father bought an LP of Sir Clifford Curzon playing Schubert’s…
A look ahead
Andrew Lambirth reveals the treats on show in 2014
The genius of Gluck
This is the first of my more-or-less monthly columns, the idea of which is to report on operatic events other…
An irrepressible spirit
Matthew Stadlen talks to the Chinese pianist Lang Lang
Seasonal torture
Three months until spring. Four months until the start of the cricket season. And only nine months until the radio…
Going for a duck
It’s taken me a few months to catch up with the political farce The Duck House. Then again, it’s taken…
Brace yourself
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave goes directly to the heart of American slavery without any shilly-shallying — unlike The…
Truths and fallacies
Immigration. Were you aware that this has become a bit of a problem these past ten years? I wasn’t, obviously,…
Mint condition
New year new ideas as we woke up on Monday morning to find ourselves in Lagos with Evan Davies trying…
Sins of omission
Georgians Revealed: Life, Style and the Making of Modern Britain at the British Library (until 11 March) would have you…
