I Am Martin Parr
On general release in the UK this week, I Am Martin Parr documents the successful…
Browsing: The Culturist
The Arb’s Oscar Predictions 2025
Our man for all things ‘on screen’, Paul Joyce, takes a look at this year’s…
My Russia, War or Peace?
Given how much has been written about Putin’s Russia and the background to the invasion…
Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism at the Royal Academy
In November 1944, an exhibition of 80 paintings and 86 works on paper by artists…
What Art Can Tell Us About Love
This is an intriguing question. What can art tell us about love? It’s a question…
Summer 1954 at Oxford Playhouse
The great Terence Rattigan – the playwright laureate of longing and repression – has been…
Goya to Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection
At the Courtauld Gallery in London there is a rare opportunity to compare the collections…
A Man For All Seasons
Ahead of a UK tour, the new Theatre Royal Bath Productions revival of Robert Bolt’s…
Sheila Fell: Cumberland on Canvas
It is fitting that the retrospective ‘Sheila Fell: Cumberland on Canvas’ of around 100 artworks…
The Devil May Care
Southwark Playhouse’s new production in its Little Theatre is an updating of Shaw’s The Devil’s…
The Tragedy Without an End: Lockerbie
As January seems to be the prime time for event drama on the small screen, the Arb’s…
An Armchair Christmas: The Entertainment Round-Up
Former TV director and the Arb’s ‘on screen’ critic, Paul Joyce, offers an appraisal of…