Arts

Does gender matter? Making Modernism, at the Royal Academy, reviewed

26 November 2022 9:00 am

The catalogue to Making Modernism opens with an acknowledgment from the Royal Academy’s first female president, Rebecca Salter, that in…

A once-great engine of culture, slowly running out of steam: the BBC at 100

26 November 2022 9:00 am

Tanjil Rashid on the BBC at 100

Minimalist but highly imaginative

19 November 2022 9:00 am

If you live in the suburb of Hawthorn in the midst of all that leafy greenness, in the federal seat…

Rebecca Humphries is dynamite – pity about the play: Blackout Songs, at Hampstead Theatre, reviewed

19 November 2022 9:00 am

Viewers watching a good romcom need to fall in love with three things. The boy, the girl and the affair…

Riveting: C4’s Who Stole the World Cup reviewed

19 November 2022 9:00 am

Have you ever seen film of the England 1966 football team holding the World Cup at the Royal Garden Hotel,…

Hugely entertaining: Royal Opera’s Alcina reviewed

19 November 2022 9:00 am

A hotel bellboy, the story goes, discovered George Best in a luxury suite surrounded by scantily clad lovelies and empty…

Exhilarating: English National Ballet triple bill, at Sadler’s Wells, reviewed

19 November 2022 9:00 am

Headed for San Francisco, Tamara Rojo bows out of her directorship of English National Ballet with an exhilarating triple bill…

What’s the point of these soul covers? Bruce Springsteen’s Only the Strong Survive reviewed

19 November 2022 9:00 am

Grade: B What’s the worst-ever cover version (after Madonna’s hilarious stab at ‘American Pie’)? I reckon Creedence Clearwater Revival’s interminable…

Ralph Fiennes at his most terrifying: The Menu reviewed

19 November 2022 9:00 am

The Menu is a comedy-horror-thriller set in an exclusive restaurant on a private island and it gives the rich a…

The bleak brilliance of Peanuts

19 November 2022 9:00 am

Mathew Lyons on the life lessons of Peanuts

A lustre that is blinding

12 November 2022 9:00 am

Does Milly Alcock find her characters inside herself or does she sketch them from outside? ‘It’s both,’ she says. ‘You…

The joy of B-sides

12 November 2022 9:00 am

Paul Weller releasing a collection of solo B-sides is cause for mild celebration. After all, the Jam were one of…

The extraordinary case of Malcolm MacArthur

12 November 2022 9:00 am

Non-fiction tells you what happened, fiction affirms the kinds of things that happen. According to Aristotle, anyway. So while journalism…

Astonishing cinema: No Bears reviewed

12 November 2022 9:00 am

Jafar Panahi’s No Bears is, first and foremost, a wonderful film. More than this, you don’t need to know but…

The careers of artists like Carolee Schneemann and Stephen Cripps are unthinkable today

12 November 2022 9:00 am

During the 1964 debut of Carolee Schneemann’s ‘Meat Joy’ in Paris, a man in the audience tried to throttle the…

Riveting: Netflix’s The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself reviewed

12 November 2022 9:00 am

Gratingly edgy soundtrack, stomach-churning gore, torture, witchcraft, sadism and an indigestible title. The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself sounds…

A towering achievement: ENO’s The Yeomen of the Guard reviewed

12 November 2022 9:00 am

The screw may twist and the rack may turn: the Tower of London, in Jo Davies’s new production of The…

King Charles III’s love of classical music

12 November 2022 9:00 am

Damian Thompson on King Charles III’s love of classical music

The UK Drill Project, at The Pit, reviewed

12 November 2022 9:00 am

The UK Drill Project is a cabaret show that celebrates greed, criminality and drug-taking among black males in London. It…

Theatre of the soul

5 November 2022 9:00 am

Whatever you think of the question of the Voice it was fascinating to hear Noel Pearson, that most formidable and…

Heartbreakingly tender: Living reviewed

5 November 2022 9:00 am

Living is a remake of one of the great existential masterpieces of the 20th century, Kurosawa’s Ikiru (1952), which didn’t…

Kazuo Ishiguro: My love affair with film

5 November 2022 9:00 am

Tanjil Rashid talks to Kazuo Ishiguro about his long and underexplored love affair with film

Thrilling: Hieroglyphs – unlocking ancient Egypt, at the British Museum, reviewed

5 November 2022 9:00 am

‘Poor old Mornington Crescent, I feel sorry for it with this highly made-up neighbour blocking the view it had enjoyed,’…

Manet’s Mona Lisa: Radio 4’s Moving Pictures reviewed

5 November 2022 9:00 am

Elizabeth the First is a ten-part American podcast series that isn’t about Elizabeth I at all. The assumption of its…