Michael Craig-Martin was the most playful and provocative of the conceptual artists. His early sculptures are like visual ...

All five finalists in the Leeds International Piano Competition, at which Pavel Kolesnikov was one of the jurors, should have been given tickets, transport and accommodation to hear his Wigmore ...

Modernism is us. Today. For the past two decades plays by Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter – which once upon a time ...

Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru (To Live) begins with an X-ray photo of the central character’s cancer-ridden stomach, a man described by the narrator (an uncredited Kurosawa) as someone “drifting through ...

Evangeline Mason I heard was six years ago, a simple song in a multi-composer “Manchester Peace Song Cycle” performed at the ...

How do you make a two-part final featuring five piano concertos work as a couple of totally satisfying programmes? First, ...

British theatre has a proud heritage of science plays. From 1990s classics such as Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia (1993) and Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen (1998) to more recent examples such as Lucy Kirkwood’s ...

We were of course lucky to get this new WNO Rigoletto at all. If it weren’t for the fact that, in the end, the company’s wonderful chorus and orchestra couldn’t wait to get back to doing what they do ...

Apart from being one of Britain’s greatest songsmiths of the past 50 years, Elvis Costello – from the early adoption of the Rock’n’roll King’s first name – has produced a form of naked self-expression ...

Just a glance at the six core funding principles with which the Arts Council of Wales (ACW) judges whether the arts organisations it exists in order to support are worthy of public subsidy shows that ...

Somewhat amusingly, the sign outside Birmingham’s O2 Academy on Saturday stated that the evening’s entertainment was to be ...

White Roses, My God isn’t a Low album. It couldn’t be. Mimi Parker, Alan Sparhawk’s wife and partner in Low, died in November 2022. And despite Low’s many musical twists and turns, Sparhawk’s public ...