If you stand close to a picture by Georges Seurat, the experience is totally different from being a few feet away. To a certain extent this is true of any painting since, close to, any brush marks and ...

Akinola Davies Jr.’s semi-autobiographical feature debut plunges two young country brothers into Nineties Lagos’s joyous ...

Peaches is primarily known as a purveyor of transgressive, sex positive anthems that have no room for shame whatsoever. This is just as it should be, although her music might not be for the easily ...

Few dancers have the luck to find a permanent place in history through their role in a new creation as Matz Skoog did in 1987. The Swedish star of the then London Festival Ballet, who died last ...

Phyllida Lloyd’s production of Peter Grimes, first seen 20 years ago, is still one of the jewels in Opera North’s treasury.

I still retain a vivid memory of a concert in London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall in December 2013 at which Hungarian composer ...

It’s been a long wait. More than five years have passed since Maria Schneider’s most recent "magnum opus", the double album ...

Jonathan Lynn has resurrected the two characters he and the late Antony Jay created in the 1970s, billing his new play the ...

In November 1975, UK music weekly New Musical Express included an article by Charles Shaar Murray titled “Are You Alive To The Jive Of The Sound Of '75.” Recently in New York, he was revealing what he ...

In 2007, Pina Bausch was preparing her company’s latest “city piece”, this one based on a visit to Kolkotta. But she was also ...

Would you want to marry a spy? After watching Betrayal, probably not.Writer David Eldridge has used the paradigm of the ...

Some 16 or so years ago, I recall hearing what sounded like fireworks from my hotel room in Chișinău, the capital of Moldova.