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The Venice Film Festival from your desk

31 August 2013 9:00 am

Venice may be the oldest film festival in the world but it is still breaking new ground. This week film-lovers…

Home viewing

29 August 2013 1:00 pm

Venice may be the oldest film festival in the world but it is still breaking new ground. This week film-lovers…

Home viewing

29 August 2013 1:00 pm

Venice may be the oldest film festival in the world but it is still breaking new ground. This week film-lovers…

Martha Wainwright

Martha Wainwright’s family affair

24 August 2013 9:00 am

Martha Wainwright was keeping it in the family at the Union Chapel in Islington last week. Arcangelo, the singer-songwriter’s three-year-old…

A family affair

22 August 2013 1:00 pm

Martha Wainwright was keeping it in the family at the Union Chapel in Islington last week. Arcangelo, the singer-songwriter’s three-year-old…

Martha Wainwright

A family affair

22 August 2013 1:00 pm

Martha Wainwright was keeping it in the family at the Union Chapel in Islington last week. Arcangelo, the singer-songwriter’s three-year-old…

Climb aboard the runaway train

17 August 2013 9:00 am

Brother, can you spare me a train? Or maybe just a Pullman carriage or two? There are so many brilliant…

All aboard!

15 August 2013 1:00 pm

Brother, can you spare me a train? Or maybe just a Pullman carriage or two? There are so many brilliant…

All aboard!

15 August 2013 1:00 pm

Brother, can you spare me a train? Or maybe just a Pullman carriage or two? There are so many brilliant…

Send George Osborne to the Tower

10 August 2013 9:00 am

Send George Osborne to the Tower, then he might learn that currency manipulation rarely ends well. Coins and Kings occupies…

Making a mint

8 August 2013 1:00 pm

Send George Osborne to the Tower, then he might learn that currency manipulation rarely ends well. Coins and Kings occupies…

Making a mint

8 August 2013 1:00 pm

Send George Osborne to the Tower, then he might learn that currency manipulation rarely ends well. Coins and Kings occupies…

Punchdrunk’s bizarre spectacle

3 August 2013 9:00 am

Standing enthusiastically by as a naked man writhes in agony might not be everyone’s cup of tea. But this is…

Voyeurs all

1 August 2013 1:00 pm

Standing enthusiastically by as a naked man writhes in agony might not be everyone’s cup of tea. But this is…

Voyeurs all

1 August 2013 1:00 pm

Standing enthusiastically by as a naked man writhes in agony might not be everyone’s cup of tea. But this is…

A secret gallery at Hyde Park Corner

27 July 2013 9:00 am

A rare jewel sits in the middle of the Hyde Park Corner roundabout. The Quadrant Gallery, run by English Heritage,…

Battle of the buildings

25 July 2013 1:00 pm

A rare jewel sits in the middle of the Hyde Park Corner roundabout. The Quadrant Gallery, run by English Heritage,…

Battle of the buildings

25 July 2013 1:00 pm

A rare jewel sits in the middle of the Hyde Park Corner roundabout. The Quadrant Gallery, run by English Heritage,…

Bear hunting on Shaftesbury Avenue

20 July 2013 9:00 am

Shaftesbury Avenue might not be traditional bear-hunting territory, but young adventure-seekers would be well advised to beat a path this…

Bear necessity

18 July 2013 1:00 pm

Shaftesbury Avenue might not be traditional bear-hunting territory, but young adventure-seekers would be well advised to beat a path this…

We're Going on a Bear Hunt - Michael Rosen, Sally Cookson, London theatre 2013

Bear necessity

18 July 2013 1:00 pm

Shaftesbury Avenue might not be traditional bear-hunting territory, but young adventure-seekers would be well advised to beat a path this…

Are rugs becoming the new must-have art objects?

13 July 2013 9:00 am

Tapestries once had a place of honour in fine art, but that was during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.…

Reap what you sew

11 July 2013 1:00 pm

Tapestries once had a place of honour in fine art, but that was during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.…

Reap what you sew

11 July 2013 1:00 pm

Tapestries once had a place of honour in fine art, but that was during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.…

Our shameful treatment of Alan Turing, the man behind the Enigma Code

6 July 2013 9:00 am

Alan Turing, the man who developed the Enigma code that saved the Allied war effort, was not merely disregarded by…