Culture

Hannah Betts on the colour with which you can’t go wrong

Christopher Pincher on the warming tones and redcurrant taste of Pernand-Vergelesses Les Fichots

In a free reworking of “Cyrano”, it takes pizzazz to rewrite French alexandrines in the manner of Eminem

The most successful modern actor-director, Clint Eastwood, rejects “the auteur crap”

The ‘offensive’ TV landmarks censored from Britain’s answer to Netflix

The artistic achievement of ‘The Crown’ has been undervalued

Criticism has died at London’s newspaper

Every six months or so opera surfaces from its undersea lair, like a Bond villain, to enter public consciousness — generally when it’s been naughty.

The older the work, the harder it is to be sure what it is or who it’s by. So how do the experts decide?

Michael Prodger meets the defiantly independent duo who back Brexit and resent the hostility of the art establishment towards them