Arts

Shigeru Ban’s Cardboard Cathedral, Christchurch

The quiet man

15 May 2014 1:00 pm

Shigeru Ban is the celebrated architect who refuses to become a celebrity. Thus, at 57, his career has run opposite…

Sketches of war and peace

15 May 2014 1:00 pm

Soldier scribes are rare, soldier artists rarer still, and soldiers who can write and draw rarest of all. General Henry…

Robin Ticciati interview: ‘Glyndebourne is a festival where the established and the fresh exist together’

10 May 2014 9:00 am

Michael Henderson talks to Glyndebourne’s fresh-faced new music director, Robin Ticciati

‘Composition With Fish’ by Jankel Adler, on show at Goldmark Gallery

The hidden, overlooked and undervalued: Andrew Lambirth’s spring roundup

10 May 2014 9:00 am

Jankel Adler (1895–1949), a Polish Jew who arrived in Glasgow in 1941, was invalided out of the Polish army, and…

‘The Tea Table’, 1938, by Henri Le Sidaner

Henri Le Sidaner: the artist who fell between two schools

10 May 2014 9:00 am

Like other species, artists club together in movements not just for purposes of identification but for longevity. Individuals who don’t…

Everyone should see this pious anti-war monologue – seriously

10 May 2014 9:00 am

Off to the Gate for a special treat: a pious anti-war monologue from the prize-winning American George Brant. Curtain up.…

One man’s guilty pleasure is another’s palpable greatness

10 May 2014 9:00 am

The film critic Anne Billson wrote a typically pugnacious piece recently about the phrase ‘guilty pleasures’, which has spread like…

More woe for Oedipus

10 May 2014 9:00 am

I had high hopes for Julian Anderson’s first opera, Thebans. Premièred at the Coliseum last Saturday, it promised to mark…

Scoot McNairy and Maggie Gyllenhaal

‘Sometimes audiences applauded Frank; sometimes they threw stuff at him’

10 May 2014 9:00 am

Frank is a music biopic, but only of sorts, as it is not at all like your average music biopic.…

Jack Bauer hits, er, West Ealing

10 May 2014 9:00 am

Whatever worries Kiefer Sutherland may have had about reprising the role of Jack Bauer in 24: Live Another Day (Sky1,…

Nothing beats Book at Bedtime

10 May 2014 9:00 am

There I was trapped in the bathroom at 10.55 p.m., unable to leave for fear of missing anything. The time…

Fifties domestic harmony

10 May 2014 9:00 am

Our love affair with the 1950s has been going on for years and shows no sign of abating. Pangolin London,…

Domestic harmony

8 May 2014 1:00 pm

Our love affair with the 1950s has been going on for years and shows no sign of abating. Pangolin London,…

Domestic harmony

8 May 2014 1:00 pm

Our love affair with the 1950s has been going on for years and shows no sign of abating. Pangolin London,…

Not guilty

8 May 2014 1:00 pm

The film critic Anne Billson wrote a typically pugnacious piece recently about the phrase ‘guilty pleasures’, which has spread like…

Not guilty

8 May 2014 1:00 pm

The film critic Anne Billson wrote a typically pugnacious piece recently about the phrase ‘guilty pleasures’, which has spread like…

Richard Eyre rehearsing the London revival of ‘The Pajama Game’ at the Shaftesbury Theatre

The very best of Broadway – a director's cut

3 May 2014 9:00 am

Richard Eyre traces the history and popularity of the American musical

British choirs can’t match up to those from abroad

3 May 2014 9:00 am

To curate a festival these days is to put oneself in the firing line. There is every chance that all…

The Guardian didn’t much like Noel Coward’s Relative Values – but you will

3 May 2014 9:00 am

Cripes. How did I get that one wrong? A few issues back I blithely predicted that Harry Hill’s musical I…

‘Herring Fisher’s Goodbye’, 1928, by Christopher Wood

A fresh perspective on reassuringly familiar artists

3 May 2014 9:00 am

This exhibition examines a loosely knit community of artists and their interaction over a decade at the beginning of the…

Thanks to Audio Description, the blind have the best seat in the house

3 May 2014 9:00 am

I did not mean to snort so loudly. There I was watching the amazing Simon Russell Beale in King Lear…

Blue Ruin is unwatchable, bloody – but, from what I saw, rather good

3 May 2014 9:00 am

Blue Ruin is a low-budget yet highly accomplished revenge thriller although whether you have the stomach for it is another…

Memorable: Joseph Guyton as Andrei Khovansky in ‘Khovanskygate’

Khovanskygate is about the dreadfulness and possible glory of being Russian

3 May 2014 9:00 am

Within the space of a few weeks we have had the rare chance of seeing the two great torsos of…

Generation War does something very un-German – bottles it

3 May 2014 9:00 am

I was so looking forward to Generation War (BBC2, Saturday) — a three-part drama series covering the second world war…

The Archers hit a new low by letting Tom dump Kirsty at the altar

3 May 2014 9:00 am

Did you hear those bloodcurdling screams from Kirsty? Those long-drawn-out wails that echoed horrifically through the ancient walls of St…