The Critics
Free at last?
How can Britney establish a version of her success without the horrors that became integral to it?
Dodgy deals and a suspect stele
There is an infinite number of ways of conning collectors, investors and even institutions too
Steel works
Beth Steel’s House of Shades is a confident new nod to the tradition of multi-generation family sagas
Lamar’s lament
Good art doesn’t have to be politically correct
The timelessness of Henry Moore
How a modernist bogeyman became an Old Master
When Great Lives grates
Tales of lives lived well, or disgracefully, are always interesting, but what makes a good obit?
Spook and crook
Research and authenticity are at the centre of these two series
Finnish on a high note
The biggest symphony orchestras are in need of music directors: but who’s in the running for the top spot?
Ethics men
Opera directors are utilising programme books to purvey their moral and ethical wisdom
’Verse averse
The idea that there are multiple universes and that it might be possible to “‘versejump” is surely one way of explaining the cinematic urge