The Critics

Goodnight Vienna

A new Austrian musical taps dark material to produce a brilliant, unsettling and darkly funny exploration of the Anschluss

The imagination of Ensor

The great Belgian painter could enliven the most mundane scenes

Behind the scenes at the museums

The exhibits missing from the globe’s galleries and museums

The geopolitical prescience of Handel

On opera’s flirtation with current affairs

Retro Rodrigo is primo

A new nostalgia listening to GUTS

Thoughtful delicacy and austere introspection

An exhibition of the art of Gwen John secures her legacy

Women’s anger and women’s ambiguities

A new exhibition offers interesting, if sometimes confusing, perspectives on women in revolt

Weekends à la mode

Living Architecture is opening minds and changing taste

The second life of Pauline Boty

Critics should not drown this much-needed revival in emotive clichés

Spare me the Great Canadian Warbler

Radio 4 celebrates the limited talents of Joni Mitchell