Culture

Will traditional museums be replaced by modern “experiences”?

London’s orchestral rat-race will have fewer runners when musical life returns, says Norman Lebrecht

Black’s History Week, with Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart

The 1946 classic is a timely reminder that affection and loyalty can surface in the most difficult of circumstances

Why can’t film directors let their work go?

Matthew Craske’s book challenges the prevailing idea of Joseph Wright as product and servant of rationalism and Enlightenment

Joseph Connolly has never ridden a bike, drunk a pint of biiter or had a curry. Can you match his epic non-achievements?

Alexander Larman talks to the Creative Editor of Penguin Classics, Henry Eliot about what makes a ‘modern classic’

‘Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life’ is Brigitte Benkemoun’s discovery of the provenance of the address book and what it told her about the owner’s life

The V&A’s new exhibition demonstrates that a handbag is indeed much more than its function