Arts
Notes on a scandal
While the airwaves resonate with celebrations of Britten’s birth, I cannot help thinking that what was happening in Paris at…
Pensioner passion
Does love run out when life runs out? Or does it intensify, touching and changing all around it? Two series…
The President’s devotions
Just in time for Advent, that season of preparation, of getting ready, of making sure we are in the right…
Collision course
I have a new party piece. I can explain, with a degree of clarity and precision, how the Hadron Collider…
Collision course
I have a new party piece. I can explain, with a degree of clarity and precision, how the Hadron Collider…
Collision course
I have a new party piece. I can explain, with a degree of clarity and precision, how the Hadron Collider…
No short cuts
Immersion is the key to adaptation says Mike Poulton, who is bringing Turgenev and Hilary Mantel’s novels to the stage
Take your pick
The current exhibition in the Sainsbury Wing claims to be a portrait of Vienna in 1900, but in fact offers…
Circus of blood
Strange actor, Martin Shaw. He’s got all the right equipment for major stardom: a handsome and complicated face, a languid…
Miller’s tale
Lloyd Evans talks to Ben Miller about politics, physics and his part in The Duck House
Great Britten
Of this year’s three musical birthday boys, Wagner has fared, in England, surprisingly well, Verdi inexplicably badly, and Britten, as…
The odd couple
Saving Mr Banks tells ‘the untold true story’ of the making of the Disney classic Mary Poppins via the stand-offs…
Cultural touchstone
Next month marks the 30th anniversary of the release of what is, in my opinion, one of the funniest films…
Cranko’s legacy
Stuttgart Ballet’s rapid ascent to fame is at the core of one of the most interesting chapters of ballet history.…
The people’s champion
Gary Bell is the rudest man in Britain. I have known the bastard for years and no one —move over,…
Letting us down
As I listened to Robert Peston early last Friday fluffing on about the Revd Paul Flowers and the possible effect…
What a life
If you were in a bathtub for 25 years, don’t you think you’d get a little bit psychotic? Well, yes,…
What a life
If you were in a bathtub for 25 years, don’t you think you’d get a little bit psychotic? Well, yes,…
What a life
If you were in a bathtub for 25 years, don’t you think you’d get a little bit psychotic? Well, yes,…
Cranko’s legacy
Stuttgart Ballet’s rapid ascent to fame is at the core of one of the most interesting chapters of ballet history.…
Guiding dream
Andrew Lambirth takes a tour of the revamped Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft
Weaving wonder
One loom, six metres in length, currently dominates the great, light-filled weaving hall of Edinburgh’s renowned tapestry workshop, Dovecot Studios.…
No laughing matter
Pop Art Design, curated by the Vitra Design Museum and currently at the Barbican, opens with Richard Hamilton’s 1956 ‘Just…
Time travelling
The title of the Lisson Gallery’s new show, Nostalgic for the Future, could sum up the gallery’s whole raison d’être.…
Fishy fantasies
One of the more exotic attractions at the 1939–40 World’s Fair in New York was Salvador Dalí’s ‘Dream of Venus…
