Arts
Time Travel
Merrily We Roll Along (Menier Chocolate Factory, until 9 March) lets you escape the winter cold to a showbiz party…
Mauvais goût
It was dinner at a prize-winning hotel in Burgundy. I looked, stupefied, at an awkward arrangement of trapezoidal plates, unaccommodating…
The shock of the old
New Yorker music critic Alex Ross published The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century five years ago, earning…
The shock of the old
New Yorker music critic Alex Ross published The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century five years ago, earning…
Why Rubens should go
The Blow family has had its disasters. There has been madness, murder and suicides. But before those mishaps there was…
The making of a myth
When John Kelly was transported from Tipperary to Tasmania in 1841, for stealing pigs, he couldn’t have imagined that 170…
The making of a myth
When John Kelly was transported from Tipperary to Tasmania in 1841, for stealing pigs, he couldn’t have imagined that 170…
Insomniac’s heaven
If I wake up at too rude an hour to get up — before four o’clock, let’s say — Through…
Insomniac’s heaven
If I wake up at too rude an hour to get up — before four o’clock, let’s say — Through…
Magical mystery tour
Pontius Pilate is deciding the fate of Ha-Notsri (aka Jesus) in Herod’s palace. In Stalin’s Moscow, meanwhile, the Devil (aka…
Magical mystery tour
Pontius Pilate is deciding the fate of Ha-Notsri (aka Jesus) in Herod’s palace. In Stalin’s Moscow, meanwhile, the Devil (aka…
Bourne again
While most theatres brace themselves for the annual invasion of prancing Nutcrackers and flying snowmen, Sadler’s Wells offers something that…
Special K
There’s a K-Pop Academy in London. Students go through a 12-week course and learn not only the finer points of…
Special K
There’s a K-Pop Academy in London. Students go through a 12-week course and learn not only the finer points of…
London’s high life
You can take a five-minute flight across the Thames on something called the Emirates Air Line. It’s a cable-car ride…
In the worst possible taste
What are the rules of taste at Christmas? How might the fastidious chart a neat path through this garish and…
London’s high life
You can take a five-minute flight across the Thames on something called the Emirates Air Line. It’s a cable-car ride…
In the worst possible taste
What are the rules of taste at Christmas? How might the fastidious chart a neat path through this garish and…
Selling secrecy
In the ‘psychotherapy ward’ of a secret venue somewhere in east London, watercolour portraits of troubled male faces line the…
Selling secrecy
In the ‘psychotherapy ward’ of a secret venue somewhere in east London, watercolour portraits of troubled male faces line the…
Review: The Rolling Stones at the O2 Arena
‘How’re you doing in the cheap seats? They’re not that cheap, though, that’s the problem,’ said Mick Jagger as he…
Review: The Rolling Stones at the O2 Arena
‘How’re you doing in the cheap seats? They’re not that cheap, though, that’s the problem,’ said Mick Jagger as he…
A world apart
Although the starving artist in the garret is no longer the favourite public stereotype, painters and sculptors remain something of…
The Dagenham Dustbin
For those of us who find passion in national iconography, this is a melancholy historical moment. It’s a very bad…
A world apart
Although the starving artist in the garret is no longer the favourite public stereotype, painters and sculptors remain something of…
