Arts

Musicians are roasting at the Proms; freezing at the Bachathon

7 September 2013 9:00 am

Gossip that an orchestral player fainted while performing in the Albert Hall during the recent heatwave points to a strange…

At home with President Nixon

7 September 2013 9:00 am

The most paranoid of presidents, Richard Nixon must have been feeling unwell when he allowed three of his closest aides…

Farewell to a natural born broadcaster

7 September 2013 9:00 am

‘He was a natural broadcaster,’ said Nick Higham, after the death last week of the rugby player and sports broadcaster…

After watching Bad Education, Big School is as embarrassing as watching your dad trying to DJ

7 September 2013 9:00 am

You know you’re getting old when TV starts getting nostalgic about eras during which you were already feeling old and…

At home with the president

5 September 2013 1:00 pm

The most paranoid of presidents, Richard Nixon must have been feeling unwell when he allowed three of his closest aides…

At home with the president

5 September 2013 1:00 pm

The most paranoid of presidents, Richard Nixon must have been feeling unwell when he allowed three of his closest aides…

‘Fire’s On’, 1891, by Arthur Streeton, a member of the Heidelberg School, named after a village outside Melbourne

Barry Humphries: in praise of Australian art

31 August 2013 9:00 am

A major exhibition of Australian art is about to open at the Royal Academy. Barry Humphries believes visitors will be surprised

Henry Goodman by Dan Williams

Henry Goodman interview: How to make Brecht fun

31 August 2013 9:00 am

Lloyd Evans talks to Henry Goodman about his role in the playwright’s political allegory

‘Anarchist’ by Alfred Munnings

At last Alfred Munnings is being taken seriously again

31 August 2013 9:00 am

Sir Alfred Munnings (1878–1959) did himself a grave and lasting disservice when he publicly attacked modern art in a bibulous…

Gritty, sweet-natured charm: Stephen Campbell Moore as Joe

Chimerica is a triumph

31 August 2013 9:00 am

Chimerica. The weird title of Lucy Kirkwood’s hit play conjoins the names of the eastern and western superpowers and promises…

Mark Elder and the Hallé surpassed any other account of Parsifal that Michael Tanner has heard

31 August 2013 9:00 am

The Proms season of Wagner operas — pity they didn’t do them all; Die Meistersinger would have been specially welcome,…

Cake is for everyone: Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry

The sight of a rose-and-pistachio cake with lychee flavouring, strewn with petals, makes Clarissa Tan’s heart lift

31 August 2013 9:00 am

I’m not crazy about cookery shows. I suspect they indicate how little we are cooking, rather than how much. We’re…

Tom Stoppard’s Pink Floyd play gives Radio 2 a dark side

31 August 2013 9:00 am

How many listeners, I wonder, actually tuned in to Darkside as it went out on air on Radio 2, after…

The Venice Film Festival from your desk

31 August 2013 9:00 am

Venice may be the oldest film festival in the world but it is still breaking new ground. This week film-lovers…

Home viewing

29 August 2013 1:00 pm

Venice may be the oldest film festival in the world but it is still breaking new ground. This week film-lovers…

Home viewing

29 August 2013 1:00 pm

Venice may be the oldest film festival in the world but it is still breaking new ground. This week film-lovers…

Tell me a story! Anne Fine, Amanda Mitichison, Terence Blacker and Keith Crossley-Holland on the joy - and importance - of reading aloud

24 August 2013 9:00 am

Robert Gore-Langton on Oxford’s new Story Museum, which aims to put stories into young lives deprived of books

Tippett’s Midsummer Marriage is an opera of exuberant genius — but forget about the text

24 August 2013 9:00 am

Whenever Michael Tippett’s first opera, The Midsummer Marriage, is revived, there is a chorus of voices, including mine, complaining that…

Opposing sides: Monica Dolan, the super-brainy lawyer, and Daniel Mays (Andrew)

Crash-for-cash scam at the Donmar

24 August 2013 9:00 am

High summer and it’s blockbuster time. The Donmar’s latest show is by the acclaimed Nick Payne, whose play about string…

The best satire at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

24 August 2013 9:00 am

Lloyd Evans finds politics everywhere: not only in the architecture but at the Fringe too

Winner: ‘Self-Portrait’, 2013, by Thomas Newbolt

The problem with self-portraits: Ruth Borchard competition and Stranger reviewed

24 August 2013 9:00 am

My wife says you can always tell a self-portrait by the quality of its self-regard. There’s something about the eyes…

Utterly natural: Onata Aprile and Alexander Skarsgård in ‘What Maisie Knew’

A painful but brilliant film: Deborah Ross on Maisie’s betrayal

24 August 2013 9:00 am

What Maisie Knew is an adaptation of the Henry James 1897 novel, updated to Manhattan in the now, and is…

Partners in crime: Walter White (back) and his assistant Jesse

Breaking Bad is so harrowing that for a while James Delingpole couldn’t watch it

24 August 2013 9:00 am

One of Boy’s more annoying teenage rules of thumb is that, if Dad likes it, it must be crap. This…

Only Evan Davies can keep his guests in order

24 August 2013 9:00 am

It must have sounded like such a great idea. To gather a group of thinkers, agitators, experts, intellectuals and media…

Martha Wainwright

Martha Wainwright’s family affair

24 August 2013 9:00 am

Martha Wainwright was keeping it in the family at the Union Chapel in Islington last week. Arcangelo, the singer-songwriter’s three-year-old…