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Back to SearchSuzanne Lacy, Bishop Auckland, Silent Night
As her first major retrospective in the UK opens in Manchester, the distinguished American artist Suzanne Lacy discusses a career which has seen her …
4 years, 10 months ago
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Turner Prize nominees Gentle / Radical, Costa Book Awards
During the pandemic Andrew Lloyd Webber has been more of a campaigner than a composer. He talks to Samira Ahmed how to keep theatres open now, taking…
4 years, 10 months ago
The Power of the Dog film review; Turner Prize nominees Cooking Sections; South African literature today
Jane Campion is famous for The Piano and a baby grand plays a crucial role in her new film The Power of the Dog, in which Benedict Cumberbatch plays …
4 years, 10 months ago
King Richard, Wheel of Time and new Zadie Smith play reviewed, Playwright Moira Buffini
New movie King Richard stars Will Smith and focuses on the father of Venus and Serena Williams. The Wife of Willesden is the first play by Zadie Smit…
4 years, 10 months ago
Ralph Fiennes on Four Quartets, Songlines exhibition, art postcard from Plymouth
‘A spiritual enquiry into what it is to be human’ is how Ralph Fiennes describes T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. On the eve of the opening in the West E…
4 years, 10 months ago
Céline Sciamma on her film Petite Maman, author Sarah Moss on The Fell, diversity in folk arts
Céline Sciamma’s last film, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, won awards worldwide after its release in 2019. Now the French filmmaker is back with Petite…
4 years, 10 months ago
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Climate Fiction, Kayleigh Llewellyn
Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his debut as film director with a cinematic retelling of the stage musical - tick, tick…Boom! The film stars Andrew Garfiel…
4 years, 10 months ago
Tori Amos performs, The Courtauld Gallery reopening and Dopesick series reviewed, Heidi Stephens live blogs
Tori Amos plays live and tells presenter Tom Sutcliffe about going from rock bottom to renewal in her lockdown album conceived on the Cornish coast, …
4 years, 10 months ago
Art in Shetland, Timothy Ogene, Sharon Heal and Paul McCartney
For many years Shetlanders with ambitions to become artists had to leave to train and work. Not any longer, and young artists are also returning to t…
4 years, 10 months ago
Venice and climate change, the story that inspired Dostoevsky, Dean Stockwell remembered
The unique cultural heritage of Venice is under threat from increasingly frequent flooding and rising sea levels. Anna Somers Cocks OBE, founding edi…
4 years, 10 months ago