Arts
Glorious gallimaufry
Discoveries: Art, Science and Exploration at Two Temple Place (until 27 April) is like a giant cabinet of curiosities. Maps,…
Glorious gallimaufry
Discoveries: Art, Science and Exploration at Two Temple Place (until 27 April) is like a giant cabinet of curiosities. Maps,…
Glorious gallimaufry
Discoveries: Art, Science and Exploration at Two Temple Place (until 27 April) is like a giant cabinet of curiosities. Maps,…
Inspired by Bach
It appears that J.S. Bach’s music is to theatre-dance what whipped cream is to chocolate. Masterworks such as Trisha Brown’s…
Sacred songs
I love a good hymn, so long as I’m not expected to sing it. Lusty declarations of faith sound ridiculous…
Sacred songs
I love a good hymn, so long as I’m not expected to sing it. Lusty declarations of faith sound ridiculous…
Cultural capital
Could splashing public money on city of culture initiatives make good business sense? William Cook reports
Independent thought
Last year saw the centenary of the London Group, a broad-based exhibiting body set up in a time of stylistic…
Tales from Oxford
Why, oh why, the producers ask, are the national press so reluctant to cover the London fringe? The snag is…
What’s it all about?
Every time there’s a new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni I have to ask the same question: why is this…
Sympathy vote
Although you’ll have heard that Dallas Buyers Club is fantastic and Matthew McConaughey gives the performance of his career, I…
The real thing
Every musical career has its own narrative, and most of them include at least one comeback. To come back, you…
Untouchable evil
What a vile piece of work Colonel Gaddafi was. For some of you, perhaps, this will be a statement of…
Dramatic week
A double dose of BBC1 drama at the weekend (Silent Witness, Casualty) left me wondering whether there’s a link between…
Power to the people
In recent years contemporary art and regeneration have gone hand in hand. Works such as Antony Gormley’s ‘Angel of the…
Power to the people
In recent years contemporary art and regeneration have gone hand in hand. Works such as Antony Gormley’s ‘Angel of the…
Power to the people
In recent years contemporary art and regeneration have gone hand in hand. Works such as Antony Gormley’s ‘Angel of the…
The real thing
Every musical career has its own narrative, and most of them include at least one comeback. To come back, you…
The real thing
Every musical career has its own narrative, and most of them include at least one comeback. To come back, you…
Murder, motive and moustachery
Robert Gore-Langton on our love for fictional detectives — and especially Poirot
Codes of conduct
Not long ago the great conductors of classical music were general practitioners. They expected to give satisfactory interpretations of music…
The voices of Firestone
Anyone who frequents the internet will have come across YouTube and soon learned that what may have been planned as…
Lies, damned lies
Alex Gibney’s The Armstrong Lies is fascinating as far as it goes but it may not go as far as…
Lear for masochists
Directors appear to have two design options when approaching a Shakespeare tragedy. Woodstock or jackboot. Woodstock means papal robes, shoulder-length…
Scratching the surface
It is often said of John Craxton (1922–2009) that he knew how to live well and considered this more important…
