Arts
Bad timing
For me, by far the most surprising revelation in Martin Durkin’s documentary Nigel Farage: Who Are You? (Channel 4, Monday)…
Walk on the wild side
After a walk in Richmond Park beset by rush-hour traffic, the Heathrow flight path and a strange swarm of flying…
Steeling the show
Visitors to Chatsworth House this spring might wonder if they have stumbled through the looking-glass. The estate’s rolling parkland has…
Steeling the show
Visitors to Chatsworth House this spring might wonder if they have stumbled through the looking-glass. The estate’s rolling parkland has…
Steeling the show
Visitors to Chatsworth House this spring might wonder if they have stumbled through the looking-glass. The estate’s rolling parkland has…
Visual overload
What’s in a definition? As far as theatre dance is concerned, quite a lot. Labelling — and often labelling for…
Bad behaviour
W.H.Auden once wrote: ‘Real artists are not nice people. All their best feelings go into their work and life has…
Bad behaviour
W.H.Auden once wrote: ‘Real artists are not nice people. All their best feelings go into their work and life has…
Women’s world
Shakespeare did not give his female characters pivotal roles, but some of his contemporaries did, as Lloyd Evans discovers
An eye for the ladies
Ray Cooney, the master of farce, is back. These days he’s in the modest Menier rather than the wonderful West…
Bearing witness
Last week, three exhibitions celebrating the art of Germany; this week, a show commemorating the first world war fought against…
In tune with nature
Like most ambitious artists, Julian Cooper has been pulled this way and that by seemingly conflicting influences. The son and…
Backing stars
Have you ever looked at backing singers and thought: what is their story? Do they or have they ever prayed…
Preparatory studies
Opera seems almost always to have been acutely concerned with its own future. These days this is most often manifested…
Man power
Louis XIV might have been a narcissistic and whimsical tyrant, but he did a lot for dance. An accomplished practitioner,…
Our island story
A young pretender raises an army to take the throne. Having recently learnt of his father’s beheading, the adolescent —…
The 5 Live effect
It’s amazing to think that it’s 20 years since the launch of Radio 5 Live. But it was bright and…
Charting history
When you’re next waiting for a train at King’s Cross, don’t waste time window shopping on the concourse. Instead, pop…
Charting history
When you’re next waiting for a train at King’s Cross, don’t waste time window shopping on the concourse. Instead, pop…
Charting history
When you’re next waiting for a train at King’s Cross, don’t waste time window shopping on the concourse. Instead, pop…
Man power
Louis XIV might have been a narcissistic and whimsical tyrant, but he did a lot for dance. An accomplished practitioner,…
Old school ties
Robert Gore-Langton talks to Julian Mitchell about the painful roots of his hit play Another Country
The Menuhin test
‘The truth is,’ says Gordon Back, lowering his voice, ‘that if the violin finalists from the BBC Young Musician of…
German giants
It’s German Season in London, and revealingly the best of three new shows is the one dealing with the most…
Senses working overtime
In 1914 Fernand Léger gave a lecture about modern art. By then recognised as a leading Cubist artist, he had…
