Arts
Carlos Acosta’s Don Quixote lacks the wow factor
Superstar Carlos Acosta makes little or no reference to Don Quixote’s established history in his programme note about the genesis…
A sensational week for opera: sensationally good and sensationally bad
It’s been a sensational week for opera in London, with a sensationally good performance of Strauss’s Elektra at the Royal…
I watched Filth from behind my hands. It's ghastly and unpleasant, but what I saw of it was brilliant
People are generally saying Filth fully fulfils the promise of its title and is not for the faint of heart…
Can you trade love for wealth? The economics of Breaking Bad
The acclaimed television series Breaking Bad has ended. Steffen Huck on what it can teach us about economics
'Atlantis' shows our civilisation is doomed
This week saw the final episode of possibly the greatest television series ever. Breaking Bad wasn’t made by the BBC,…
Autumn shake-up in Radios 2 and 3 scheduling
This time round in the autumn shake-up of the schedules it’s Radios 2 and 3 who are on the frontline…
Pearls: if you’ve got ’em, wear ’em
‘Women spend more money on their ears in pearl earrings than on any other part of their person.’ So said…
Pearl appeal
‘Women spend more money on their ears in pearl earrings than on any other part of their person.’ So said…
Pearl appeal
‘Women spend more money on their ears in pearl earrings than on any other part of their person.’ So said…
Don Q lite
Superstar Carlos Acosta makes little or no reference to Don Quixote’s established history in his programme note about the genesis…
Chris Ingram: from messenger boy to museum benefactor
Andrew Lambirth meets Chris Ingram, the collector behind a much-lauded museum in Woking
Jeff Koons's work is childish — just like us
The contrast could not have been more acute. It came the day after a press release from Christie’s New York…
Henry van de Velde — the man who invented modernism
In the Musée du Cinquantenaire, a grand gallery on the green edge of Brussels, those bureaucratic Belgians are welcoming home…
English embroidery: the forgotten wonder of the medieval world
Think of an art at which the English have excelled and I doubt you would come up with the word…
The grandson of Scott’s deputy makes music in Antarctica
As his father lay dying some six years ago, Julian Broke-Evans promised him that he would ‘keep telling the story’,…
The boom in private museums
In the past ten years museums of modern and contemporary art have proliferated around the world. New institutions have appeared…
Woody Allen's new film will so knock your socks off, you will never retrieve them again
Blue Jasmine is the latest film from Woody Allen who, at various stages of his career, has been declared on-form,…
Barking in Essex: a hit with hen-night hysterics
How appropriate. Barking in Essex, a farce about gangsters, has been dishonestly billed as ‘a new comedy’. The script was…
Why do people talk such nonsense when describing opera? American Lulu and Le Nozze di Figaro reviewed
Why would anyone want to adapt Berg’s Lulu, a masterpiece even if a problematic one? According to John Fulljames, who…
Music at Mass is theological warfare by other means
How many battles have been fought over sacred music throughout history? The noise you make when you worship is a…
Downton Abbey is now a weird parallel universe of the royal family. Except with less action
Are you following the world’s most watched aristocratic family? If you recall, they recently took into their ranks a member…
A modern take on Victoriana
Britain is still an essentially Victorian country (see Daily Mail for details). So it’s no surprise that we keep returning…
Look back in laughter
Britain is still an essentially Victorian country (see Daily Mail for details). So it’s no surprise that we keep returning…
Look back in laughter
Britain is still an essentially Victorian country (see Daily Mail for details). So it’s no surprise that we keep returning…
Yorkshire: England’s sculptural heartland in the north
William Cook is inspired by England’s sculptural heartland in Yorkshire, just as Moore and Hepworth were
