Arts
A connoisseur’s eye
Alec Cobbe is a designer, painter, musician, picture restorer and collector, and has recently donated drawings, photographs and other archives…
A connoisseur’s eye
Alec Cobbe is a designer, painter, musician, picture restorer and collector, and has recently donated drawings, photographs and other archives…
Food for the soul
Andrew Lambirth on the art of stained glass, as exemplified by Patrick Reyntiens
The music of innocence
Michael Henderson on the splendour of carols
Give me a child…
Mike Shaw on what (and what not) to do when taking children to the theatre
Building a future
One of the big differences between Frank Lloyd Wright and me is that, when he was nine, his mother gave…
The lady vanishes
Lloyd Evans tries to get a handle on Birgette Hjort Sorensen
Male order
Henry V is the final show in Michael Grandage’s first West End season. The theatre was full to bursting on…
That’s what I call music
Albums of the year? What a good question. Some years we can answer it, some years we can’t. The essence…
‘What ho, Giotto’
‘If I go to war, I go on condition I can have Giotto, the Basilica of Assisi book, Fra Angelico…
Making a splash
Turner’s contemporaries regarded him primarily as a marine painter. This perception extended to his persona, with many who met him…
Underpowered Wagner
Debussy’s description of the music of Parsifal as being ‘lit up from behind’ is famous; less so is Wagner’s own…
Beauty without consolation
Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata is thrilling and brain-twisting. Its nickname derives from the fact that it was published as a sonata…
Yuletide joy
So I’m looking at the seasonal TV schedules trying to find something — anything — to watch. Britain and the…
A well-spent 40p
Is it time to scrap the licence fee? That’s a question we’re going to hear more and more about in…
Walk on the wild side
If, like me, you are allergic to pantomime (‘Oh, no you’re not!’; ‘Oh, yes I am!’) then help is at…
Walk on the wild side
If, like me, you are allergic to pantomime (‘Oh, no you’re not!’; ‘Oh, yes I am!’) then help is at…
Building a future
One of the big differences between Frank Lloyd Wright and me is that, when he was nine, his mother gave…
Walk on the wild side
If, like me, you are allergic to pantomime (‘Oh, no you’re not!’; ‘Oh, yes I am!’) then help is at…
Building a future
One of the big differences between Frank Lloyd Wright and me is that, when he was nine, his mother gave…
Modern master
William Cook talks to the architect David Chipperfield, whose work has made him a star in Germany
Who are they?
There aren’t many operas from which you can extract a single act and make a concert of it, in fact…
Street cred
There hasn’t been a decent Daumier exhibition in this country for more than half a century, so art lovers have…
Larval Butterworth
In 1992 Quentin Tarentino gave us Reservoir Dogs. At a stroke he reinvented the gangster genre and turned it into…
Women only
Powder Room is a small British film all about women and starring only women — boo-hoo, men; my heart bleeds…
