High and Low by Amanda Craig
Amanda Craig has long been one of the sharpest observers of modern London: its fault…
Browsing: The Culturist
Sherlock Holmes at Regent’s Park
Given the thunder, lightning and generally wet and wild weather of the proceeding day, I…
The Constant Wife
The RSC’s The Constant Wife, sponsored by Cunard and starring Kara Tointon in the title…
Henry Moore at Kew: Monumental Nature
In Kew Gardens’ vast new Henry Moore exhibition, bronze sculptures, ancient trees and open space…
Michaelina Wautier at the RA
At the Royal Academy of Arts currently, a revelatory exhibition restores the often overlooked 17th c…
Grace Pervades at Theatre Royal Haymarket
David Hare’s new play (his 32nd), Grace Pervades, a sweeping, century-straddling meditation on the lives of…
Before Bond: The Books That Built the Spy Genre
Long before Bond, Bourne and Lamb, there was Kim, Hannay and Ashenden. For The Arbuturian,…
Don Quixote at Sadler’s Wells
The great choreographer of the golden age of Russian ballet, Marius Petipa, is probably best…
Pompeii: Below the Clouds
With the release of Gianfranco Rosi’s hauntingly beautiful documentary, Rosalind Ormiston is absorbed by this meditation on life…
The Wizard of the Kremlin
Sometimes a book almost seamlessly fits a moment in real time and flies off the…
Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Style
Celebrating our late monarch’s centenary, the new Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Style exhibition,…
In Bloom: How Plants Changed Our World
At the Ashmolean Museum, Rosalind Ormiston explores ‘In Bloom: How Plants Changed Our World’, a…