Culture
Black to basics
Hannah Betts on the colour with which you can’t go wrong
Terroir to his toes
Christopher Pincher on the warming tones and redcurrant taste of Pernand-Vergelesses Les Fichots
Non-nose job
In a free reworking of “Cyrano”, it takes pizzazz to rewrite French alexandrines in the manner of Eminem
The toughest role
The most successful modern actor-director, Clint Eastwood, rejects “the auteur crap”
Don’t mention the war, or Alf Garnett
The ‘offensive’ TV landmarks censored from Britain’s answer to Netflix
An adult view of monarchy
The artistic achievement of ‘The Crown’ has been undervalued
Who’d want to be a critic?
Criticism has died at London’s newspaper
Naughty but nice
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 art of attribution and the attribution of art
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?
The Critic Interview: Gilbert and George
Michael Prodger meets the defiantly independent duo who back Brexit and resent the hostility of the art establishment towards them