Arts
If BBC3 was allowed to keep its hits, perhaps it wouldn't be getting booted online
So BBC3 will be online-only from next autumn. If the Beeb had presented this news as the channel being the…
The sound of growing rhubarb
When the BBC proposed to do away with 6 Music a few years ago, the media-savvy fans of the station…
Rome, Open City still shocks
Roberto Rossellini shot his neorealist landmark Rome, Open City while the war still raged and rubble littered the freshly liberated…
Occupational hazards
Roberto Rossellini shot his neorealist landmark Rome, Open City while the war still raged and rubble littered the freshly liberated…
House rules
Every year, tens of thousands of visitors flock to the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, in order to see…
Occupational hazards
Roberto Rossellini shot his neorealist landmark Rome, Open City while the war still raged and rubble littered the freshly liberated…
Paloma Faith interview: 'If you do something enough times, it becomes you'
Paloma Faith has forced herself to become confident, she tells Matthew Stadlen,but sometimes she still has to put on a brave face
Addicted to Vole
Earworm: what a wonderful word. It describes, as nothing else quite can, the effect a really invasive melody can have…
The British Museum's Vikings: part provincial exhibit, part gripping drama
Exhibitions are made for two main reasons: education and entertainment. Although I recognise the importance of education I am, by…
ENO's Rodelinda: near-perfect singing, perfectly gimmicky direction
I wasn’t going to write about Handel’s Rodelinda, wasn’t even intending to go, but thanks to the kindness of the…
Rape, porn and Cheesy Wotsits
Interesting times at Soho Theatre. One of its outstanding shows of last year, Fleabag, was an offbeat Gothic love story…
A film to enjoy with your eyes
The Grand Budapest Hotel is the latest Wes Anderson film and it is beautiful to look at, scrumptious, luscious, such…
Is True Detective worth sticking with? The jury's out
I’ve got this brilliant idea for a major new cop series. It’s called Chalk and Cheese and, though you won’t…
Listening to genocide – and what came next
It doesn’t take long for an international event of historic importance to fall off the news agenda. Ukraine is still…
Behind the scenes at Spitting Image
If Margaret Thatcher is remembered by many more as a caricature than as her actual self, then blame Spitting Image.…
Blast from the past
If Margaret Thatcher is remembered by many more as a caricature than as her actual self, then blame Spitting Image.…
Blast from the past
If Margaret Thatcher is remembered by many more as a caricature than as her actual self, then blame Spitting Image.…
The torture of earworms
Earworm: what a wonderful word. It describes, as nothing else quite can, the effect a really invasive melody can have…
The torture of earworms
Earworm: what a wonderful word. It describes, as nothing else quite can, the effect a really invasive melody can have…
'At last I wasn't worried about making pictures': an interview with Mark Shields
Andrew Lambirth talks to Mark Shields, an artist whose work transcends the specific
Hannah Höch – from Dada firebrand to poet of collage
I suspect I am not alone in finding it surprising to encounter at the close of this exhibition an unexpected…
Who knew that Cézanne had a sense of humour?
Tourists are attracted to queues, art lovers to quietude. So while the mass of Monet fans visiting Paris line up…
The best exhibition of architecture I have ever experienced
Curtain walls, dreaming spires, crockets, finials, cantilevers, bush-hammered concrete, vermiculated rustication, heroic steel and delicate Cosmati work are all diverse…
The Ikon Gallery's greatest hits
In a crowded storeroom at Ikon, Birmingham’s contemporary art gallery, its director Jonathan Watkins is unwrapping the pictures for his…
Why is Tippett's King Priam so difficult to love?
The difference between lovable, likable and admirable is perhaps more significant in the operatic world than in other artistic spheres…
