Arts

Wonderfully special: La chimera reviewed

11 May 2024 9:00 am

La chimera, which, as in English, means something like ‘the unrealisable dream’, is the latest film from Italian writer/director Alice…

Why did C.J. Sansom approve this moronic Disney+ Shardlake adaptation?

11 May 2024 9:00 am

What would C.J. Sansom have made of the Disney+ version of his novel series about 16th-century crookback lawyer Matthew Shardlake?…

A gripping podcast about America’s obsession with guns

11 May 2024 9:00 am

The love affair between so many Americans and their guns – long a source of international fascination – appears to…

Fascinating insight into the mind of Michelangelo

11 May 2024 9:00 am

You’re pushing 60 and an important patron asks you to repeat an artistic feat you accomplished in your thirties. There’s…

Music as pasta

4 May 2024 9:00 am

It’s sad to see that Sir Andrew Davis, the former head of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, has died. The man…

An exquisitely funny sitcom that should be on the BBC

4 May 2024 9:00 am

Agathe by Angela J. Davis follows the early phases of the Rwanda genocide 30 years ago. The subject, Agathe Uwilingiyimana,…

It’s time to free art from being ‘interactive’ and ‘immersive’

4 May 2024 9:00 am

The American artist and critic Brad Troemel once pointed out that art galleries have all turned into a kind of…

Adrianne Lenker is a treasure for the ages

4 May 2024 9:00 am

You could very well sum up their differing approaches to American roots music from how they were dressed. Both wore…

The mutilation of Radio 3

4 May 2024 9:00 am

On Saturday 12 December 1964, Harold Wilson addressed his first Labour party conference as prime minister, George Harrison was photographed…

Don’t write off Hofesh Shechter – his new work is uniquely haunting

4 May 2024 9:00 am

In 2010, when his thrillingly edgy and angry Political Mother delivered modern dance a winding punch right where it hurt,…

The barbarity of this man

27 April 2024 9:00 am

It’s a spectacle a lot of people would kill to see: Hugo Weaving in a Sydney Theatre Company co-production of…

Sordid, ugly and threadbare: Jimmy Carr – Natural Born Killer reviewed

27 April 2024 9:00 am

Here’s an offensive joke: ‘Jimmy Carr gets paid to do a Netflix special.’ All right, it’s not original – I…

Tennis romance that doesn’t contain much tennis: Challengers reviewed

27 April 2024 9:00 am

It sounds straightforward enough: a tennis romance starring Zendaya, idol of the mid-teen demographic and last seen riding a sandworm…

Cheesy remake of Our Mutual Friend: London Tide, at the Lyttelton Theatre, reviewed

27 April 2024 9:00 am

Our Mutual Friend has been turned into a musical with a new title, London Tide, which sounds duller and more…

Taylor Swift’s new album is exhausting

27 April 2024 9:00 am

How to explain the supercharged star power of Taylor Swift? An undeniably gifted artist, Swift’s albums 1989, Folklore and Evermore,…

How to live off the land for a year

27 April 2024 9:00 am

Could you live off the land for a year without buying a single thing to eat? This was the challenge…

You could have built a tent city from all the red chinos: Aci by the River reviewed

27 April 2024 9:00 am

The Thames cruise for which Handel composed his Water Music in 1717 famously went on until around 4 a.m. The…

The latest Venice Biennale is ideologically and aesthetically bankrupt

27 April 2024 9:00 am

Last week’s opening of the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale marks a watershed for the art world. In much…

‘I couldn’t afford loo roll’: Bruce Robinson on being skint, Zeffirelli’s advances and Withnail’s return

27 April 2024 9:00 am

Bruce Robinson is ramming a huge log into the grate of his ancient fireplace in mud-clogged Herefordshire. He’s 77 and…

The music of their eloquence

20 April 2024 9:00 am

It was a tweet by the novelist Joyce Carol Oates that warned us PBS, the American public broadcaster, had done…

Entirely pointless and extremely pleasant: House Flipper 2 reviewed

20 April 2024 9:00 am

Grade: B+ Most video games challenge the player’s problem-solving skills, reaction time or hand-eye co-ordination. But a handful of them…