Painting the French Riviera at The Royal Academy
With the weather turning, the Royal Academy offers the next best thing to a trip…
Browsing: The Culturist
An Autumn Miscellany
From murder in Oxford to espionage in occupied Rome and mystery in the south of…
English National Ballet’s Rhythm Riot
English National Ballet has brought a new triple bill to Sadler’s Wells this autumn and…
Thelma and Louise at The Young Vic
It was 1991 that the film of Thelma and Louise first appeared, a sweeping road…
Kimberly Akimbo at Hampstead Theatre
“It’s a play about a girl living, not a girl dying” says writer David Lindsay-Abaire…
Lady in Blue Arrives on the Fourth Plinth
Trafalgar Square’s rotating art experiment welcomes its sixteenth commission this month, as Tschabalala Self’s technicolour…
Holy Fool at Park Theatre
It’s a warm, muggy evening in early September. The air pressure feels oppressive, and as…
Abigail’s Party
Gin, Demis Roussos and simmering marital despair; Mike Leigh’s seminal suburban satire gets a magnetic…
Swagger and Scandal: Whistler at Tate Britain
Litigious, self-mythologising and never knowingly underdressed, James Abbott McNeill Whistler cuts a singular figure among…
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…