Arts
Red carpet attraction
Live broadcasts into cinemas have become something of a commonplace, and a welcome one: operas, theatre performances, even radio programmes.…
Red carpet attraction
Live broadcasts into cinemas have become something of a commonplace, and a welcome one: operas, theatre performances, even radio programmes.…
Red carpet attraction
Live broadcasts into cinemas have become something of a commonplace, and a welcome one: operas, theatre performances, even radio programmes.…
Another country
William Cook has moved to Metroland. He contemplates John Betjeman’s vision of it
Wizards of Oz
Astonishingly, the last major survey show of Australian art in this country was mounted more than half-a-century ago. Then it…
Spaced out
Does London need another concert hall? Or, to put it more precisely, does London need another chamber music hall? The…
Brecht will be Brecht
Brecht in the West End? Quite a rarity. Jonathan Church’s zippy and stylish version of The Resistible Rise of Arturo…
Don Q lite
Superstar Carlos Acosta makes little or no reference to Don Quixote’s established history in his programme note about the genesis…
Sensational Strauss
It’s been a sensational week for opera in London, with a sensationally good performance of Strauss’s Elektra at the Royal…
Dirty work
People are generally saying Filth fully fulfils the promise of its title and is not for the faint of heart…
Counting the cost
The acclaimed television series Breaking Bad has ended. Steffen Huck on what it can teach us about economics
Myth mash-up
This week saw the final episode of possibly the greatest television series ever. Breaking Bad wasn’t made by the BBC,…
All change
This time round in the autumn shake-up of the schedules it’s Radios 2 and 3 who are on the frontline…
Pearl appeal
‘Women spend more money on their ears in pearl earrings than on any other part of their person.’ So said…
Pearl appeal
‘Women spend more money on their ears in pearl earrings than on any other part of their person.’ So said…
Pearl appeal
‘Women spend more money on their ears in pearl earrings than on any other part of their person.’ So said…
Don Q lite
Superstar Carlos Acosta makes little or no reference to Don Quixote’s established history in his programme note about the genesis…
Light fantastic
Andrew Lambirth meets Chris Ingram, the collector behind a much-lauded museum in Woking
Buying a pup
The contrast could not have been more acute. It came the day after a press release from Christie’s New York…
Prophet of modern design
In the Musée du Cinquantenaire, a grand gallery on the green edge of Brussels, those bureaucratic Belgians are welcoming home…
Medieval indulgence
Think of an art at which the English have excelled and I doubt you would come up with the word…
Sounds in silence
As his father lay dying some six years ago, Julian Broke-Evans promised him that he would ‘keep telling the story’,…
Private passions
In the past ten years museums of modern and contemporary art have proliferated around the world. New institutions have appeared…
Woody’s return to form
Blue Jasmine is the latest film from Woody Allen who, at various stages of his career, has been declared on-form,…
Aiming low
How appropriate. Barking in Essex, a farce about gangsters, has been dishonestly billed as ‘a new comedy’. The script was…
