Arts
Sins of omission
Georgians Revealed: Life, Style and the Making of Modern Britain at the British Library (until 11 March) would have you…
Sins of omission
Georgians Revealed: Life, Style and the Making of Modern Britain at the British Library (until 11 March) would have you…
An irrepressible spirit
As Lang Lang walked from the stage at the Royal Albert Hall in November, a little girl emerged from the…
An irrepressible spirit
As Lang Lang walked from the stage at the Royal Albert Hall in November, a little girl emerged from the…
Seasonal torture
Three months until spring. Four months until the start of the cricket season. And only nine months until the radio…
Seasonal torture
Three months until spring. Four months until the start of the cricket season. And only nine months until the radio…
Jumble of taste
Andrew Lambirth on the Sainsbury Centre’s latest exhibition
Major to minor
Looking through the list of composers who celebrate some sort of anniversary in 2014 is a depressing business. I don’t…
The year in opera
I’ve been hoping that in this, the last of my weekly columns on opera, I would be able to strike…
Size matters
It starts with a brilliant joke. We’re in the Weimar Republic in 1929. Little Emil Tischbein is listening to his…
Uphill struggle
The biopic Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom is a timely tribute, and an earnest and respectful and well-meaning one,…
Saint and sinner
Will Gore talks to Naomie Harris about playing Winnie Mandela
Staying alive
Sherlock’s not dead. A good thing, since on New Year’s Day BBC1 launched its third series of Sherlock, and it’d…
We will remember
Perhaps the most moving programme of all amid the huge range that will mark the coming centenary of the Great…
A connoisseur’s eye
Alec Cobbe is a designer, painter, musician, picture restorer and collector, and has recently donated drawings, photographs and other archives…
A connoisseur’s eye
Alec Cobbe is a designer, painter, musician, picture restorer and collector, and has recently donated drawings, photographs and other archives…
A connoisseur’s eye
Alec Cobbe is a designer, painter, musician, picture restorer and collector, and has recently donated drawings, photographs and other archives…
Food for the soul
Andrew Lambirth on the art of stained glass, as exemplified by Patrick Reyntiens
The music of innocence
Michael Henderson on the splendour of carols
Give me a child…
Mike Shaw on what (and what not) to do when taking children to the theatre
Building a future
One of the big differences between Frank Lloyd Wright and me is that, when he was nine, his mother gave…
The lady vanishes
Lloyd Evans tries to get a handle on Birgette Hjort Sorensen
Male order
Henry V is the final show in Michael Grandage’s first West End season. The theatre was full to bursting on…
That’s what I call music
Albums of the year? What a good question. Some years we can answer it, some years we can’t. The essence…
‘What ho, Giotto’
‘If I go to war, I go on condition I can have Giotto, the Basilica of Assisi book, Fra Angelico…
