Arts feature
Natalia Osipova interview: ‘I'm not interested in diamond tiaras on stage’
Giannandrea Poesio talks to Natalia Osipova about her ballet-based philosophy
The home of Holland’s celebrity paintings gets a makeover
Laura Gascoigne on the treasures in the newly reopened Mauritshaus museum in The Hague
Indiscretions from two veteran producers
Robert Gore-Langton talks to Duncan Weeldon and Paul Elliott about the good old days – and getting shafted
'I would find myself forging my own work': Quentin Blake on how he came to found the House of Illustration
Ariane Bankes talks to Quentin Blake about a new project that will bring illustration out of the shadows
John Bishop interview: ‘My dream was to be Steven Gerrard, but he got there first’
Stand-up comedian John Bishop tells Matthew Stadlen about the depression that triggered his career
Alex Jennings interview: the new Willy Wonka on Roald Dahl’s ‘child killer’
Alex Jennings, the new Willy Wonka, tells Lloyd Evans why Dahl’s ‘misanthropic world’ is fascinating to inhabit
Modernism's dreams – and nightmares – at the Venice Architectural Biennale
Roderick Conway Morris is edified and entertained by the Venice Architectural Biennale
Nicola Benedetti interview: Bruch, boyfriends and Scottish independence
Matthew Stadlen talks to the violinist Nicola Benedetti about what drew her to Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy
Bill Forsyth interview: ‘If we hadn’t made a go of it, my plan was just to disappear.’
Award-winner Bill Forsyth tells William Cook why he was happy to walk away from film-making
Polly Teale interview: Cuts are making the theatre ‘a place where you can only survive if you are from a privileged background’
Lloyd Evans talks to the good-natured theatre director Polly Teale
A photographer sheds new light on Constable Country
Andrew Lambirth talks to Justin Partyka, whose photographs show Constable Country in an unexpected light
Robin Ticciati interview: ‘Glyndebourne is a festival where the established and the fresh exist together’
Michael Henderson talks to Glyndebourne’s fresh-faced new music director, Robin Ticciati
The very best of Broadway – a director's cut
Richard Eyre traces the history and popularity of the American musical
Batman: from midnight monster to pop-tacular star. Kapow!
Batman is 75. Peter Hoskin considers the septuagenarian’s enduring appeal
The National Gallery's Veronese is the exhibition of a lifetime
The National Gallery’s exhibition succeeds triumphantly, says Andrew Lambirth
When Britain’s avant-garde weren’t so shouty
Niru Ratnam highlights the revival of interest in artists who were popular in the 1960s and 1970s
The curator brain drain
Britain may have educated the most talented curators, but, as Jack Wakefield says, we can’t always keep them
Why are Shakespeare’s women so feeble?
Shakespeare did not give his female characters pivotal roles, but some of his contemporaries did, as Lloyd Evans discovers
Julian Mitchell on Another Country: ‘I based it on my fury and anger and I wrote it fast and it flowed'
Robert Gore-Langton talks to Julian Mitchell about the painful roots of his hit play Another Country
Ivan Vasiliev and Roberto Bolle: interview with ballet royalty
Giannandrea Poesio meets Ivan Vasiliev and Roberto Bolle, ballet’s demigods
Paloma Faith interview: 'If you do something enough times, it becomes you'
Paloma Faith has forced herself to become confident, she tells Matthew Stadlen,but sometimes she still has to put on a brave face
'At last I wasn't worried about making pictures': an interview with Mark Shields
Andrew Lambirth talks to Mark Shields, an artist whose work transcends the specific
What now for ENO?
Michael Henderson wonders what direction English National Opera will now take
What Emperor Augustus left us
Roderick Conway Morris on the influence and legacy of Augustus
Is it a good idea to splash money on European cities of culture?
Could splashing public money on city of culture initiatives make good business sense? William Cook reports
