Arts
No fear
I can’t say I care for zombies particularly or even understand them — OK, they’re the living dead, but what…
Ladies in Black
David Jones administration may be moving to Melbourne but that won’t worry Sydney: it knows where DJ’s really belongs. Reading…
Belly of an architect
Depending on your point de vue, Haussmann’s imperial scheme for Paris created townscape of thrilling regularity or boring uniformity. Whatever;…
Root and branch
Eventually,’ said Michelangelo Pistoletto, ‘it became a movement. In fact, I believe that arte povera was the last true movement.…
No fear
I can’t say I care for zombies particularly or even understand them — OK, they’re the living dead, but what…
Food of love
Modern Britain scratches its head over children who are overfed, not underfed, while guilt-ridden mothers stand accused of feeding children…
Skinny dipping
For a 21st-century gallery, a Victorian collection can be an embarrassment. Tate Modern got around the problem by offloading its…
Making history
‘A fool’s errand’. That is how Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and…
Making history
‘A fool’s errand’. That is how Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and…
Nicholas Serota
In this week of toadying obsequies after the (rather late) retirement of Sir Nicholas Serota from his imperial throne at…
Nicholas Serota
In this week of toadying obsequies after the (rather late) retirement of Sir Nicholas Serota from his imperial throne at…
In a league of her own
The Emperor seems like a worthy lesson in Ethiopian history. Haile Selassie’s final days are recounted by a retinue of…
In a league of her own
The Emperor seems like a worthy lesson in Ethiopian history. Haile Selassie’s final days are recounted by a retinue of…
Pole apart
Alas, poor André Tchaikowsky. A survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, with an assumed name that probably did his musical career…
Pole apart
Alas, poor André Tchaikowsky. A survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, with an assumed name that probably did his musical career…
The Third way
We now think of Radio 3 as the music station, but when it was created in 1946 as the Third…
The Third way
We now think of Radio 3 as the music station, but when it was created in 1946 as the Third…
Cautionary tale
The closing credits of National Treasure (Channel 4, Tuesday) contain the usual disclaimer that any resemblance between its characters and…
Estate agent
A big misunderstanding about art is that it excites serene meditation and transcendent bliss. But anyone who has worked in…
Cooking the books
Cooking really shouldn’t make good radio. On television, it’s already frustrating that you can’t taste what you’re seeing, but on…
In the shadow of Picasso
‘My painting is an act of decolonisation,’ declared Wifredo Lam. These are the first words you read on entering the…
Super Norma
The Royal Opera has opened the season with a triumph, and in one of the most difficult of operas, Bellini’s…
Let the good times roll
For a regular dancegoer in New York City, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater seasons arrive with the comforting predictability…
Sense of humour failure
Coleridge deemed the narrative structure of The Alchemist perfect. But, I wonder. A landowner quits plague-ridden London and his cunning…
A Bridge too far?
Bridget Jones’s Baby is the third outing for our heroine as played by Renée Zellweger, whose cosmetic work to face…
