Arts
Erectile dysfunction
Anthony Weiner is the American politician who made a comeback after a sexting scandal and stood for New York mayor.…
Friel good factor
Does anyone believe Brian Friel’s libellous blarney? He portrays Ireland in the 20th century as an economic basket case where…
Echoes of Italy
‘Hidden beauty is best (half seen), faces turned away.’ So noted a young English painter named Winifred Knights in 1924.…
Fifty shades of grey
Grey men in grey overcoats walking through grey architecture. If you had to pick an image to reflect the current…
Death of the auteur
From the Oscar winning classics of the early Seventies — The French Connection (1971) and The Exorcist (1973) — to…
Erectile dysfunction
Anthony Weiner is the American politician who made a comeback after a sexting scandal and stood for New York mayor.…
Double trouble
The Bolshoi Ballet’s wunderkind ballerina Natalia Osipova defied received wisdom when, in 2012, she cast off from the great Moscow…
Echoes of Italy
‘Hidden beauty is best (half seen), faces turned away.’ So noted a young English painter named Winifred Knights in 1924.…
I can’t get no Satiesfaction
After peaking at around the tenth instalment, birthday celebrations get progressively less interesting, for their subjects at least. I remember…
I can’t get no Satiesfaction
After peaking at around the tenth instalment, birthday celebrations get progressively less interesting, for their subjects at least. I remember…
Friel good factor
Does anyone believe Brian Friel’s libellous blarney? He portrays Ireland in the 20th century as an economic basket case where…
Friel good factor
Does anyone believe Brian Friel’s libellous blarney? He portrays Ireland in the 20th century as an economic basket case where…
Fifty shades of grey
Grey men in grey overcoats walking through grey architecture. If you had to pick an image to reflect the current…
Fifty shades of grey
Grey men in grey overcoats walking through grey architecture. If you had to pick an image to reflect the current…
Accentuate the positive
Fifty years ago on Monday the World Service programme Outlook was launched as an innovative news and current affairs programme…
Accentuate the positive
Fifty years ago on Monday the World Service programme Outlook was launched as an innovative news and current affairs programme…
And your point, Professor?
Pop idol turned top boffin Brian Cox doesn’t shy away from the big issues. With programmes such as Wonders of…
Light and shade
Comedy and tragedy sit close beside one another in Mozart’s operas. Whether it’s the grinning horror of the Così finale…
The big chill
It’s sadly possible to imagine that The Living and the Dead was sold to BBC1’s commissioning editors as ‘Poldark meets…
Amber Scott and Adam Bull in Swan Lake
Amid predictable demands for increased funding for the arts, The Australian Ballet is setting off on its 25th ( yes,…
Moor four
Paradoxically, some ballet masterworks absolutely depend on tiptop performing to demonstrate how great they are. If they don’t get it,…
Tangled web
Mike Bartlett’s curious blank-verse drama Charles III became an international hit. His new effort examines the cut-throat world of dark-web…
Refuge from the referendum
A brief encounter with Radio 4’s Any Questions to gauge the measure of opinion in the shires after the referendum…
Holy visions and dustbins
Woolworth’s spectacles. Pudding-basin haircut, rather sparse. Norfolk jacket. Pyjama cuffs below trouser legs and sleeves. Paints and brushes in an…
Money for nothing
Tate Modern’s new Switch House extension in London has been greeted with acclaim. It is a building designed in the…
