Arts
If 'Greek' is playing within 200 miles of where you live — watch it
This week chanced to give me a fascinating study in contrasts and comparisons: Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Greek at the Linbury Studio,…
Philomena is Dame Judi’s film
Philomena is based on the true story of an Irish woman searching for the son stolen from her by the…
Your life is not like a Detroit assembly line — it's worse
This year’s Free Thinking festival at the Sage in Gateshead has been asking the question, Who’s in Control?. Oddly, or…
James Delingpole: All students need a 'sense of entitlement' — ask my fundie friend Rupert
‘Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans,’ said John Lennon. Quite apposite from a man…
Nick Cave is still raising hell
As Sunday night’s storm clouds gathered, one of rock’s great polymath-storytellers whipped up a tempest of his own on the…
Songs of love and hate
As Sunday night’s storm clouds gathered, one of rock’s great polymath-storytellers whipped up a tempest of his own on the…
Songs of love and hate
As Sunday night’s storm clouds gathered, one of rock’s great polymath-storytellers whipped up a tempest of his own on the…
Welcome home, Malcolm Morley
Andrew Lambirth talks to Malcolm Morley
The master of living, breathing landscapes
One sometimes forgets when looking at French 19th-century art that the painting revolution that produced Impressionism coincided with a political…
Braque in full flight
Towards the end of his life, Georges Braque described his vision in the following terms: ‘No object can be tied…
The big tease
Perhaps the greatest irony of many in this first solo London show of Sarah Lucas is that it is sponsored…
Dear Simon Jenkins, please stop moaning about developers
When architectural preservationists meet at the tedious conferences and grim councils of despair that feed oxygen to their nihilistic and…
A rich, colourful romp
Bold decisions are at the core of great artistic directorship. And Tamara Rojo, the ballet star leading English National Ballet,…
The Light Princess badly needs a mission
There are many pleasures in The Light Princess, a new musical by Tori Amos. George MacDonald’s fairy story introduces us…
Damian Thompson: I may be in danger of becoming an opera queen
It’s taken 40 years, but I’ve finally developed a taste for the one type of classical music that I couldn’t…
I hope you spotted the epic 'existential struggle' in Les vêpres siciliennes — I didn't
Verdi’s Les vêpres siciliennes is his least performed mature opera, even in its more familiar version as I vespri siciliani.…
Deborah Ross: The Selfish Giant is not fresh, but it's superbly performed
The Selfish Giant is a British social-realism film in the tradition of all such films from Kes onwards, so it…
Will the women of The X Factor stop perving?
Will the women on ITV’s The X Factor (Saturday) stop perving? I suppose there are two ways to tackle the…
Grayson Perry is an inspired choice for the Reith Lectures
You’ve probably already read or heard somewhere that the inspiration for Grayson Perry’s current series of Reith Lectures on Radio…
Jeremy Deller curates a fascinating and funny exhibition in Manchester
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air is an art show largely without art (at Manchester Art Gallery until 19…
Mine of information
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air is an art show largely without art (at Manchester Art Gallery until 19…
In defence of developers
When architectural preservationists meet at the tedious conferences and grim councils of despair that feed oxygen to their nihilistic and…
Mine of information
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air is an art show largely without art (at Manchester Art Gallery until 19…
Entertaining romp
Bold decisions are at the core of great artistic directorship. And Tamara Rojo, the ballet star leading English National Ballet,…
Tim Rice: How to get ahead in musicals
Tim Rice’s latest venture is about to open in the West End. Here he takes us through the happy accidents that have led to his hit musicals
