Swagger and Scandal: Whistler at Tate Britain
Litigious, self-mythologising and never knowingly underdressed, James Abbott McNeill Whistler cuts a singular figure among…
Browsing: The Culturist
Gauguin and Polynesia
A meticulously researched biography cuts through decades of controversy to ask what Gauguin’s paintings actually…
A Summer Miscellany
Whether you’re reading poolside, on a delayed train, or hiding from the heat with the…
Richard Dadd: A Much-Respected Murderer
Feted as a Royal Academy prodigy, then locked away for stabbing his own father to…
Ariadne auf Naxos at Glyndebourne
Richard Strauss’ ‘opera within an opera’ Ariadne auf Naxos, has at its heart an audacious reconciliation…
M.C.Escher: The Exhibition
At Somerset House in London, a landmark show traces how a shy Dutch graphic artist,…
Georgia State Ballet’s Swan Lake
For a traditional, lavishly staged version of the best-loved of classical ballets, look no further…
Eugene Onegin at The Grange Festival
As The Grange Festival’s summer season draws to a close, Anna Selby catches a soaring,…
Anish Kapoor at the Hayward Gallery
Rosalind Ormiston finds a jaw-dropping spectacular at the Hayward Gallery, as Anish Kapoor returns home in…
Glyndebourne Up Close: In Conversation with Samantha Hankey
As Glyndebourne’s sun-scorched lawns brace for a new production of Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos,…
Springwood
It’s become customary that a trip to the theatre these days should involve something grandiose…