Famously Handel and Bach never met, despite being born in the same year in the same country. So it was fun to see the ...

Cinema has a deep distrust of the devout. Even though many movie types are tied up in all sorts of personal spiritual ...

We’ve heard of dad rock, but how about dad techno? This Spanish movie, directed by the French-born Oliver Laxe, immerses us ...

The bite of winter, barely registering these past months in London, snapped at my cheeks on arriving at Leeds Railway Station ...

Rose Wylie’s paintings are a blast of fresh air. Direct, anarchic, exuberant and determinedly daft, they make a mockery of the self-importance that so often infects the art world.Now in her nineties, ...

If heart were art, there would be no stopping The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, the 2012 Rachel Joyce novel that became ...

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s semi-satirical thriller The Secret Agent looks back with incredulity, disgust, and ambiguous ...

I don’t remember yesterday, but I remember when I was eight years old.” The opening lyrics of “Sure & Steady,” Gained / Lost’s second track, underline a core concern of UK indie stalwarts The Wave ...

Last week I saw Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, a play which behind its pyrotechnic wit affirms that sorrow and calamity can strike chaotically at the heart of any human idyll. At first glance, the programme ...

Backstories of famous writers are fascinating: where did they come from? What were their inspirations? What obstacles did they overcome? Alexi Kaye Campbell’s new historical family drama, Bird Grove, ...

After honing an 80s-inspired and -influenced indie sound, the solo singer-songwriter Mitski set out across the range with ...

Settling into my seat in this most intimate of houses, I realised that I had never seen a play written by Nobel Laureate and ...