Features & Interviews
theartsdesk in Warsaw: A New Jewish Museum
Sunday, 19 May 2013
The Ghetto Heroes Square in the Muranow district of Warsaw is a bleak place surrounded by drab apartment blocks. But at its centre there’s now a new building that attracted over 15,000 visitors in the first two days of its opening on 20 and 21 April, the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943. It’s particularly remarkable as the building doesn’t yet have any exhibits on show. But Daniel Libeskind’s extension for the Jewish Museum in Berlin also opened so people could experience...
Extract: England My England - Anglophilia Explained
Sunday, 19 May 2013
Are Anglophiles born or made? Or cultured in a medium of suet and sentimentality, romanticism and Marmite? Inexplicably, this question has gone begging, at least in the States. Perhaps American scholars deem the subject too frivolous to merit academic scrutiny in the same way that camp, kitsch, and cuteness had to wait for freelance intellectuals like Susan Sontag, Celeste Olalquiaga, and Daniel Harris to legitimise their study. Of course, the whiff of Toryism or just garden-variety snobbery...
theartsdesk Q&A: Kate Lindsey and Katharina...
Saturday, 18 May 2013
What’s the perfect Glyndebourne opera? Mozart, of course, must have first and second places with Le nozze di Figaro – Michael Grandage’s lively...
The Leopard: 50 years on from Cannes
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
It took Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, melancholy last scion of a never very reproductive family, a lifetime to get round to...
Extract: Mariachi, Machetes, Meths - Manu Chao in...
Sunday, 12 May 2013
Lake Chapalá begins just south of Guadalajara in the state of Jalisco. In case there’s any doubt we’re in Mexico, a mariachi band are propositioning...
theartsdesk at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival
Wednesday, 08 May 2013
Van Morrison leads the charge of perfect jazz on some summer days |
Who was Dorothy Squires?
Monday, 06 May 2013
As a new play about her opens, an old showbiz friend recalls a complicated diva |
Clandestino: In Search of Manu Chao
Sunday, 05 May 2013
The author of the first book in English about the global activist superstar explains his obsession with a compelling, contradictory figure |
theartsdesk in Prague: Two Faces of Mucha
Sunday, 05 May 2013
The great Czech pioneer of art nouveau has a pair of shows, one of them curated by Andy Murray's coach |
Billy Liar at 50
Friday, 03 May 2013
A seminal British black comedy in a handsome new print |
Desperately Seeking the Exit: The Story of a West End Disaster
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
How a Madonna film mixed with Blondie's music sank, and gave birth to a one-man show |
Desperate: How a disaster was born
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
From the archive, this piece from 2007 recalls how a flop musical was conceived in hope |
theartsdesk in Austin, Texas: The Library with Everything
Sunday, 28 April 2013
A trip to the Harry Ransom Center's spectacular literary and visual archive |
The Resurrection of Conor McPherson
Saturday, 27 April 2013
As The Weir is revived, the ghost of booze no longer haunts the Irish playwright's work |
The Eagles at Sundance - History in the Making
Saturday, 27 April 2013
New documentary tells the 40-year story of the legendary Los Angeles band |
Turner Prize 2013 shortlist: Is David Shrigley an artist? and other thoughts
Thursday, 25 April 2013
Always interesting for who it leaves out, but at least this year's shortlist won't disappoint for familar names |
PUNK+ - Sheila Rock's portraits from the frontline
Thursday, 25 April 2013
Introducing the definitive collection of punk images by the American photographer who witnessed a revolution |
Opinion: Is acting now just for the privileged?
Thursday, 25 April 2013
How the dramatic arts are reacting to the Etonian insurgency |
Sundance London 2013: Preview
Monday, 22 April 2013
The film and music festival returns for its second year with an impressive line-up |
theartsdesk in Istanbul: City on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown?
Sunday, 21 April 2013
The arts and the economy might be prospering, but critics fear old Istanbul is turning into a new Dubai |
Canal Dreams: the Panama Film Festival
Sunday, 21 April 2013
A fledgling film festival in Latin America is proving a godsend for local audiences dominated by Hollywood |
BBC Proms 2013: Ring operas for a fiver each
Friday, 19 April 2013
The world's biggest music festival runs the gamut as ever, from Bach to Fazer, England to Azerbaijan |
'For him, maestro was an ironic term': Sir Colin Davis remembered
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
We ask some great classical performers what the conductor meant to them. And add our own memories |
Ayahs, lascars and munshis: staging The Empress
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Tanika Gupta introduces her new play for the RSC about the Asian presence in Victorian England |
Sir Colin Davis: 'He simply knew how Mozart should go'
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
The distinguished broadcaster and biographer Humphrey Burton pays tribute to the conductor who became his brother-in-law |
Sir Colin Davis, 1927-2013
Monday, 15 April 2013
All-time great British conductor who enjoyed an indian summer with the LSO |
Inspector Morse's Last Round
Sunday, 14 April 2013
As the young detective returns in Endeavour, we revisit this set report from Morse's final case |
theartsdesk in Lyons: A contemporary opera house taking a bold approach
Sunday, 14 April 2013
An opera festival of justice/injustice serves out its sentence in style |
theartsdesk in India: Endangered classical music, and aerialist dancers
Saturday, 13 April 2013
In Mumbai with Shakhar Kapur and dhrupad musicians and in Kerala with aerialists |
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