Arts
Yet another side of Bob Dylan
So, there’s this guy called Bob Dylan and, across just seven years in the 1960s, he’d released nine albums that…
Yet another side of Bob Dylan
So, there’s this guy called Bob Dylan and, across just seven years in the 1960s, he’d released nine albums that…
Classics in Crackland
Damian Thompson visits Brazil to hear Marin Alsop whip São Paulo’s orchestra into shape
On the beach
With a tidal wave of Peter Grimeses about to engulf us — performances in London, Birmingham and Leeds in September…
Ways of the world
The popular conception of Dame Laura Knight is of an energetic woman piling on the paint in the back of…
Girls allowed
More un-Shakespearean drama at London’s leading Shakespeare venue. The Globe has pushed the Bard off stage to make way for…
Sweet and sour
The easiest thing would be to sneer at Richard Curtis’s new film About Time, and so I will a little,…
It ain’t half hot
Gossip that an orchestral player fainted while performing in the Albert Hall during the recent heatwave points to a strange…
At home with the president
The most paranoid of presidents, Richard Nixon must have been feeling unwell when he allowed three of his closest aides…
The human factor
‘He was a natural broadcaster,’ said Nick Higham, after the death last week of the rugby player and sports broadcaster…
School’s in
You know you’re getting old when TV starts getting nostalgic about eras during which you were already feeling old and…
At home with the president
The most paranoid of presidents, Richard Nixon must have been feeling unwell when he allowed three of his closest aides…
At home with the president
The most paranoid of presidents, Richard Nixon must have been feeling unwell when he allowed three of his closest aides…
Under the radar
A major exhibition of Australian art is about to open at the Royal Academy. Barry Humphries believes visitors will be surprised
Spreading Brecht’s message
Lloyd Evans talks to Henry Goodman about his role in the playwright’s political allegory
The magic of Munnings
Sir Alfred Munnings (1878–1959) did himself a grave and lasting disservice when he publicly attacked modern art in a bibulous…
Quest for Tank Man
Chimerica. The weird title of Lucy Kirkwood’s hit play conjoins the names of the eastern and western superpowers and promises…
Elder’s evening
The Proms season of Wagner operas — pity they didn’t do them all; Die Meistersinger would have been specially welcome,…
Let us eat cake
I’m not crazy about cookery shows. I suspect they indicate how little we are cooking, rather than how much. We’re…
Stoppard territory
How many listeners, I wonder, actually tuned in to Darkside as it went out on air on Radio 2, after…
Home viewing
Venice may be the oldest film festival in the world but it is still breaking new ground. This week film-lovers…
Home viewing
Venice may be the oldest film festival in the world but it is still breaking new ground. This week film-lovers…
Home viewing
Venice may be the oldest film festival in the world but it is still breaking new ground. This week film-lovers…
Are you sitting comfortably…
Robert Gore-Langton on Oxford’s new Story Museum, which aims to put stories into young lives deprived of books
Exuberant genius
Whenever Michael Tippett’s first opera, The Midsummer Marriage, is revived, there is a chorus of voices, including mine, complaining that…
