Arts
The Wright stuff
Kate Chisholm talks to the director of the BBC Proms about the challenges of coming up with 75 nightly programmes
Celebrity watch
Sofia Coppola’s latest film is not an action adventure, or a supernatural horror, or a stoner comedy, just so you…
Young blood
Dominic Cooke did it at the Royal Court. Now Ed Hall is having crack as well. Cooke’s crazy decision to…
North stars
Siegfried is, everyone agrees, the hardest of the Ring dramas to bring off. The first and almost insurmountable problem is…
Dark pleasures
Luther is back, in Luther, and so is Donny Osmond, of Donny & Marie fame. Could there be two more…
Touching the void
One morning in 1995 Tara Bariana walked out of his house in Walsall and didn’t stop walking until he had…
The man who saw further
Alan Turing, the man who developed the Enigma code that saved the Allied war effort, was not merely disregarded by…
The man who saw further
Alan Turing, the man who developed the Enigma code that saved the Allied war effort, was not merely disregarded by…
The man who saw further
Alan Turing, the man who developed the Enigma code that saved the Allied war effort, was not merely disregarded by…
Reel lives
Here’s a documentary called Chronicle of a Summer. Which summer? Why, the summer of 1960, in Paris, when fag-end colonial…
Reel lives
Here’s a documentary called Chronicle of a Summer. Which summer? Why, the summer of 1960, in Paris, when fag-end colonial…
Self styled
As someone who once raved about William Forsythe’s innovative approach to ballet and fondly admired his groundbreaking choreographic explorations, I…
The secret’s out
The word ‘concert’ means different things to different people. For some it evokes dinner jackets and not clapping between movements;…
Carry on up the jungle
‘I am the wrath of God. The earth I pass will see me and tremble.’ Not my words, Mr Speaker,…
Create your own culture
Technology is turning the human urge to consume information into an unhealthy addiction. Some of this consumption — reading, following…
Carry on up the jungle
‘I am the wrath of God. The earth I pass will see me and tremble.’ Not my words, Mr Speaker,…
Create your own culture
Technology is turning the human urge to consume information into an unhealthy addiction. Some of this consumption — reading, following…
Curiouser and curiouser
An oversized St Bernard’s body masked with a sheep’s head and a regal peacock with penguin feet and flippers punctuate…
Curiouser and curiouser
An oversized St Bernard’s body masked with a sheep’s head and a regal peacock with penguin feet and flippers punctuate…
Houghton revisited
When the Marquess of Cholmondeley inherited Houghton Hall, the Palladian palace by Colen Campbell and James Gibbs, he started rootling…
Houghton revisited
When the Marquess of Cholmondeley inherited Houghton Hall, the Palladian palace by Colen Campbell and James Gibbs, he started rootling…
Losing the plot
Last Friday, ballet’s overcrowded aviary welcomed a new addition: Raven Girl. Sexy, sleek, troubled and troublesome, she is the creation…
Another side of Le Corbusier
On the outskirts of La Chaux-de-Fonds, an industrial town in the Swiss Jura, stands one of the most beautiful houses…
Losing firepower
Man, I love the Flaming Lips. Psychedelic rock sublimity. They movingly address the deepest human concerns without a whiff of…
Losing firepower
Man, I love the Flaming Lips. Psychedelic rock sublimity. They movingly address the deepest human concerns without a whiff of…
