Arts
What a life
If you were in a bathtub for 25 years, don’t you think you’d get a little bit psychotic? Well, yes,…
What a life
If you were in a bathtub for 25 years, don’t you think you’d get a little bit psychotic? Well, yes,…
Cranko’s legacy
Stuttgart Ballet’s rapid ascent to fame is at the core of one of the most interesting chapters of ballet history.…
Ditchling Museum's guiding dream
Andrew Lambirth takes a tour of the revamped Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft
Weaving the colours of music
One loom, six metres in length, currently dominates the great, light-filled weaving hall of Edinburgh’s renowned tapestry workshop, Dovecot Studios.…
Where's the fun, Barbican?
Pop Art Design, curated by the Vitra Design Museum and currently at the Barbican, opens with Richard Hamilton’s 1956 ‘Just…
The Lisson show is so hermetic, sometimes we flounder for meaning
The title of the Lisson Gallery’s new show, Nostalgic for the Future, could sum up the gallery’s whole raison d’être.…
'Squiggle, squiggle, ooh, good...' Tate St Ives shows how sexy the octopus can be
One of the more exotic attractions at the 1939–40 World’s Fair in New York was Salvador Dalí’s ‘Dream of Venus…
Peter Phillips: I saw the other side of John Taverner
When I first met John Tavener in 1977, he was still largely known for his dramatic cantata The Whale, which…
Jennifer Lawrence is plain brilliant in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
In the future, everyone will have silly names. Some people will be called Haymitch Abernathy. Others will be Effie Trinket…
Baroque opera shows vicious people can sometimes be happy — and we're glad they are
Visits by English Touring Opera are always to be looked forward to, but this autumn it has surpassed itself with…
Finally — a play about insomnia that cures insomnia
Athol Fugard is regarded as a theatrical titan but I usually need a microscope to find any trace of greatness…
Why doesn't Doctor Who travel far from Britain?
If I could go back in time, I’d watch Doctor Who from the very first episode. I wasn’t born in…
What Jackie did after JFK was assassinated
A surfeit of anniversaries this week reminded us that on the day of President Kennedy’s assassination, C.S. Lewis (born 1898)…
Mass destruction in an age of mass media
Catalyst: Contemporary Art and War at the Imperial War Museum North (until 23 February) is alone worth a trip to…
Images of war
Catalyst: Contemporary Art and War at the Imperial War Museum North (until 23 February) is alone worth a trip to…
Images of war
Catalyst: Contemporary Art and War at the Imperial War Museum North (until 23 February) is alone worth a trip to…
Do you think this painting is worth $48.4 million?
Collectors may be mad for Jean-Michel Basquiat but the critics hate him. Niru Ratnam asks why
The ENO's Magic Flute ignores everything that makes Mozart's opera great
A new production of The Magic Flute is something to look forward to, if with apprehension. How many aspects of…
The painter of poetry
The famous court case in which Ruskin accused Whistler of ‘flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face’ continues…
'Keeler' is not just about Tory bigwigs chasing nymphettes around the pool
It’s an unlovely venue, for sure. Charing Cross Theatre, underneath the arches, likes to welcome vagrant plays that can’t find…
The sickeningly talented Johnny Flynn
James Mumford talks to the sickeningly talented actor and folk singer Johnny Flynn
The Butler, about a black domestic in the White House, is too painfully obvious
The Butler tells the story of an African–American butler at the White House who served eight American presidents over three…
The Royal Ballet's triple bill was danced to perfection
There was a time when the term ‘world première’ was not as fashionable as it is these days. Great works…
James Delingpole: Is the fight against environmentalism the new Cold War?
Gosh it isn’t half irksome when someone who went to the same school as you but is considerably younger than…
