Culture

How I discovered classical music

Daniel Johnson describes the joy of indulging in music as a teenage boy

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Can the arts world learn to love the Tories?

As the Government injects 1.57bn into arts and culture, Alexander Larman considers the reactions from those in the industry

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The ecstasy and the agony

Paul du Quenoy reviews The Club King, Peter Gatien’s memoir of New York nightlife

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Sex and violence: Titian’s Metamorphoses

The National Gallery are reopening their headline 2020 exhibition on 8th July

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Age cannot wither them: has the casting of Ian McKellen as Hamlet gone too far?

Does age-blind casting work when adapting Shakespeare?

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Soho, Soho, it’s off to walk we go…

Is pedestrianisation the way to reopen Soho?

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Art Attack

Does culture have a future in the post-lockdown world?

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When in Romania…

Christopher Pincher explores the Wine Ambassador restaurant and emporium in Bucharest

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Should we listen to writers about their own work?

As Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads is set to air this evening, Alexander Larman ponders the relationship between a living writer and their works

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Sebastian Horsley: equal parts Byronic dandy, Dickensian grotesque and Wildean poseur

Alexander Larman remembers his time with the decadent author, Sebastian Horsley, 10 years after his death

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