Arts

Edinburgh rocks

7 August 2014 1:00 pm

And they’re off. The mighty caravan of romantic desperadoes, radical egoists, stadium wannabes, struggling superstars and vanity crackheads is on…

Edinburgh rocks

7 August 2014 1:00 pm

And they’re off. The mighty caravan of romantic desperadoes, radical egoists, stadium wannabes, struggling superstars and vanity crackheads is on…

Simple pleasures

7 August 2014 1:00 pm

According to some textbooks, one thing the fathers of Soviet choreography hastened to remove from ballet was that awkward-looking language…

Family ties

7 August 2014 1:00 pm

One of the many delightful aspects of having children is that you can get them to do things you are…

Family ties

7 August 2014 1:00 pm

One of the many delightful aspects of having children is that you can get them to do things you are…

Home Front: Radio 4's first world war drama will fight out the full four years

2 August 2014 9:00 am

Kate Chisholm on the BBC’s ambitious new radio series

‘Goose Woman’, c.1840, by George Smart

Why did it take so long to recognise the worth of British folk art?

2 August 2014 9:00 am

British folk art has been shamefully neglected in the land of its origin, as if the popular handiwork of past…

I think I’ve found the new Maria Callas

2 August 2014 9:00 am

Some of my most enjoyable evenings, when I reviewed opera weekly for The Spectator, were spent at the Royal College…

Was Elgar’s The Kingdom an attempt to write a religious Ring Cycle?

2 August 2014 9:00 am

To go from the second day of the England v. India Test match at Lord’s to the Albert Hall for…

In Norwich, a director is caught trying to murder Wagner’s Tannhäuser

2 August 2014 9:00 am

Seventeen years ago the Norwegian National Opera staged two cycles of the Ring in Norwich’s Theatre Royal, performances that have…

Terribly, terribly English: Helen McCrory as Medea

Let’s face it, Greek tragedy is often earnest, obscure or boring. Not this Medea

2 August 2014 9:00 am

Carrie Cracknell’s new version of Medea strikes with overwhelming and rather puzzling force. The royal palace has been done up…

Moon Indigo: an all-you-can-eat buffet for the eyes - but your brain will feel famished

2 August 2014 9:00 am

Your enjoyment of Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo may entirely depend on how much visual whimsy you can take, what your…

The Terracotta Army Museum: the warriors were built to protect Quin Shi Huuang, China’s first emperor

Barbie dolls? This girl aims for the head

2 August 2014 9:00 am

Channel 4’s Kids and Guns (Thursday) began with an American TV advert in which a young boy’s eyes shone with…

Glasgow and the Commonwealth go back a long way; Radio 4 explores a murky past

2 August 2014 9:00 am

What’s been missing from the schedules during the Commonwealth Games has been a straightforward reminder about who makes up the…

A history of remembrance

2 August 2014 9:00 am

One fight that seems to have been won is that spearheaded by the War Memorials Trust to preserve the thousands…

We will remember them

31 July 2014 1:00 pm

One fight that seems to have been won is that spearheaded by the War Memorials Trust to preserve the thousands…

We will remember them

31 July 2014 1:00 pm

One fight that seems to have been won is that spearheaded by the War Memorials Trust to preserve the thousands…

Pitch perfect

31 July 2014 1:00 pm

To go from the second day of the England v. India Test match at Lord’s to the Albert Hall for…

Pitch perfect

31 July 2014 1:00 pm

To go from the second day of the England v. India Test match at Lord’s to the Albert Hall for…

Neville Marriner: still going strong at the age of 90

How conductors keep getting better at 90

26 July 2014 9:00 am

Matthew Stadlen talks to three conductors about growing old very gracefully

The Lunchbox: a love story based on food and free postage

26 July 2014 9:00 am

Was Kate due a grounding after the awards extravaganza of Revolutionary Road and The Reader? Because Labor Day (12A) slipped…

Natalia Osipova in the Royal Ballet’s ‘Connectome’, choreographed by Alastair Marriott

Natalia Osipova interview: ‘I'm not interested in diamond tiaras on stage’

26 July 2014 9:00 am

Giannandrea Poesio talks to Natalia Osipova about her ballet-based philosophy

When Mr and Mrs Clever-Nasty-and-Rich met Mr and Mrs Thick-Sweet-and-Poor

26 July 2014 9:00 am

Torben Betts, head boy at Alan Ayckbourn’s unofficial school of apprentices, has written at least a dozen plays I’ve never…

Malevich: Are Tate visitors ready for this master of modernism?

26 July 2014 9:00 am

Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935) is one of the founding fathers of Modernism, and as such entirely deserves the in-depth treatment with…

I can’t see the point of Glyndebourne’s La traviata

26 July 2014 9:00 am

One of the highlights of last year’s Glyndebourne Festival was the revival of Richard Jones’s Falstaff, spruced up and invigorated…