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

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

The clue is in the title – not Then in America or Over There in America or even a more apposite, if more misleading, Now in America, but an urgent, pin you to the wall and stick a finger in your face, ...

It begins with a superb rendering of his 2018 song “Ain’t Gonna Moan No More”, on which Van is joined by the mellifluous voice of Kurt Elling, and which was recorded alongside the other duets on the ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

It’s a bold move to give a UK cinema release to this fierce courtroom drama about a French left-wing intellectual who was ...

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 ...

Let the train take the strain”, as the old advertising slogan urged us. The train in this six-part drama has to soak up a ...