Arts
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…
Messing around with Berg
Why would anyone want to adapt Berg’s Lulu, a masterpiece even if a problematic one? According to John Fulljames, who…
Theological warfare
How many battles have been fought over sacred music throughout history? The noise you make when you worship is a…
At home with the royals
Are you following the world’s most watched aristocratic family? If you recall, they recently took into their ranks a member…
Look back in laughter
Britain is still an essentially Victorian country (see Daily Mail for details). So it’s no surprise that we keep returning…
Look back in laughter
Britain is still an essentially Victorian country (see Daily Mail for details). So it’s no surprise that we keep returning…
Look back in laughter
Britain is still an essentially Victorian country (see Daily Mail for details). So it’s no surprise that we keep returning…
Northern rocks
William Cook is inspired by England’s sculptural heartland in Yorkshire, just as Moore and Hepworth were
Gut feelings
Like all artists of independent spirit, David Tress (born 1955) resists categorisation. He has been called a Romantic and a…
Freudian slip
Terry Johnson’s acclaimed farce Hysteria opens in Sigmund Freud’s Hampstead home in 1938. The godfather of psychobabble is ambushed by…
Look on the bright side
Ah yes, Candide, the adventures of an innocent abroad in ‘the best of all possible worlds’, as philosophers of the…
Beyond redemption
It’s a cynical start to the Royal Opera’s season to have this 1984 production of Puccini’s last opera Turandot. Not…
