You’ve been framed
Britain’s best-known photographer claims to like ordinary people but are his pictures celebratory or mocking?
Hellzapoppin’
This superb exhibition in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, marking the painter’s 500th anniversary, is a mesmerising cornucopia of the bizarre
On the trail of Piero
The only way to appreciate the 15th century master is by taking a tour of central Italy. Now with the help of a new app, it’s easier than ever to track down his must-see frescoes
Dying of the light
The brutalist beauty that is St Peter’s Seminary has lain in ruins for decades. This March it is brought back to life as part of Scotland’s Festival of Architecture 2016
ENO must go…
Of course one regrets that musicians will lose their jobs. But why should we have to pay for the opera company’s random experiments?
Bottom Gere
Richard Gere is flamboyantly terrible, hamming it up until someone must have had to run out for more ham
Just Williams
Plus: was Erica Jong guilty of TMI in Fear of Flying? And Julia Hobsbawm finds out whether we really are separated by six degrees and a drama not to miss
Real life
But he had done me a great service and an incredible deal so I decided not to go to the police
Bridge
Over the years, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking, and canvassing opinion, about what to lead from AKxxx (or…
Gnomic
Zurich has been the scene for the latest clash between the titans of chess. Over a mere four days in…
No. 397
Black to play. This position is from Shirov-Nakamura, Zurich 2016. Black is winning easily but now finished with a fine…
Country music
In Competition No. 2936 you were invited to propose lyrics for a new British national anthem. Tom Shakespeare recently suggested…
2249: Transformation
The transformation is 10A (three words), which suggests the other unclued lights, including one of two words and one hyphened.…
Solution to 2246: Where’s Maggie?
The play was Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams. The characters were BRICK (1A), DOCTOR BAUGH (7/5),…
Vote ‘leave’ and stop the blurring of Britain
Staying in the European Union will mean the ebbing away of everything that makes our nation different and special
The 5 per cent of people who get to decide everything
We live by the preferences of the least tolerant. That’s why it’s so important to fight for free speech
