The Christmas Concert at Glyndebourne
It might not be the best time of year for a picnic but Glyndebourne is…
Browsing: The Culturist
The Wobble Club
Auteur filmmaker, scriptwriter and Arb contributor Simon Rumley’s first novel is at times an unsettling…
Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec at the RA
Colour is the first impression that hits the senses on entering the Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries…
Murder in the Lady Chapel
Hannah Weybridge is a woman dogged by trouble. As a freelance journalist and single mother,…
Colditz, Prisoners of the Castle
As I started writing this review there was a minor storm in a teacup over…
Marina Abramović at The Royal Academy
Marina Abramović (Hon RA), the Belgrade-born artist, sculptor and film-maker has made performance art her…
7 Deaths of Maria Callas
The “mother of performance art” Marina Abramovic has been obsessed with Maria Callas for many…
Remembrances of War: An Exhibition by Paul Joyce
My first thoughts on beginning the series were to paint exactly what I remembered, but…
La Traviata at The Coliseum
So, just for complete disclosure here, Traviata was the first opera I ever saw, and…
Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas
“I decided to hang the exhibition mainly on chairs…” she says, before adding, “much in…
The Score at Theatre Royal Bath
The highly anticipated Theatre Royal Bath Production of The Score starring Brian Cox is a…
Peter Grimes at the ENO
Let me begin – most unusually – with the orchestra. The ENO’s production of Peter…