The Romantics
Miss York visits Keats House in Hampstead for an outdoor performance of Romantics by director James Veitch and the Pale Fire theatre company. We all know Miss York likes the rain; did she like the performance as well?
Browsing: The Culturist
The Merchant of Venice
Alex Larman visits the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon for a performance of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, transplanted by director Rupert Goold into a bustling Las Vegas.
Whisky, But Not As We Know It
Did you see that film Whisky? The one that was based in a sock factory, the sock factory in Uruguay? Minimal dialogue, subtitled? The one with the loose storyline, you know it? The main character hardly says anything. Did you see it?
Bloomsbury Art Fair
When it comes to large scale fairs, the art world has its calendar pretty much…
Natasha Archdale’s Financial Animals
Aah, remember those days of making collages in art classes in primary school? Cutting up…
Uncover the Hidden Unknown
If you’re anywhere near St James’s in central London in the coming weeks and you…
Time + Trace
Larry braves an early morning exhibition preview of David Rickard’s latest show at the Sumarria Lunn Gallery in Mayfair and discovers that installation art can be a better brain-stimulus than coffee.
Music from the Penguin Cafe
“I am the proprietor of the Penguin Cafe. I will tell you things at random.” These words reverberated around the head of composer Simon Jeffes. This is the sound of someone you love who’s going away and it doesn’t matter…
Possession
Steve Thompson, whose film recommendations are frankly starting to worry us here at The Arb, confesses his rather dirty love for Andrzej Zulawski’s 1981 twisted horror-drama, Possession.
The Young Guns
Following the success of Sam Leach’s sell-out Platonia exhibition in Mayfair last September and Kieran…
A Tale of Two Operas
Paul Guest reviews two of the operas from The Royal Opera’s spring season, Fidelio and The Tsar’s Bride, which will both be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 this month.
The Cherry Orchard
‘Straw-hatted melancholy’. Is there a more dismissive way of referring to one of the greatest…