Mary NguyenMusicLondon,
Australian director Benedict Andrews has a new production of La bohème currently showing at the ENO which adds a controversial twist to the original Puccini opera. Oftentimes when the word "contemporary" is slammed together with words like "new production" audiences ...
Frances WilsonArt & ArchitectureLondon,
This timely major new exhibition of 150 photographs by acclaimed photographer Lee Miller portrays women’s experiences during the Second World War and reflects Miller’s unique insight as a woman and a photographer whose sharply observed and sensitively nuanced ...
Nicholas MarloweArt & ArchitectureLondon,
It's an unsettling experience, standing in front of the little pen and ink study which the Spanish artist Goya made of himself in 1795. He may in fact be concentrating on his own image in a mirror, but it's easy ...
Mary NguyenMusicLondon,
The second production of the ENO’s new season, shown on the same week as "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk," is Jonathan Miller's twelve revival of "The Barber of Seville." It is Rossini’s most celebrated comic opera based on the play ...
Mary NguyenMusicLondon,
The ENO began its 2015/16 opening season with Shostakovich’s ‘tragic – satire opera’ Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1934) which caused Stalin to walk out during a performance and led to a scathing review in Russia’s political newspaper Pravda. Directed by ...
Nicholas MarloweArt & ArchitectureLondon,
Ai Weiwei is a global phenomenon. As well as being one of the most recognizable artists working today, he's famous for his outspoken criticism of the Chinese government and in particular of its record on human rights. So great is ...
Frances WilsonArt & ArchitectureLondon,
Generally considered to be an Anglo-American phenomenon, Pop Art is most closely associated with artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, whose work offered a colourful and unconflicted commentary on modern commercial culture in screen prints of Campbell’s soup ...
Jacky Colliss HarveyArt & ArchitectureLondon,
What to make of Alice Anderson's show at the Wellcome, Memory Movement Memory Objects? What indeed to make of the artist herself – soft-spoken intense, with a French accent at odds with her name, and a ...
Frances WilsonArt & ArchitectureLondon,
Joseph Cornell is one of the most famous yet enigmatic characters in twentieth-century American art. A leading exponent of collage and assemblage, and a connoisseur of an astonishing range of subjects, including astronomical charts and geographical ...
Mary NguyenArt & ArchitectureLondon,
Audrey Hepburn had an extraordinary life, from her childhood as a ballerina, to her first taste of the theatre spotlight and becoming a Hollywood star. She became such an iconic figure that fashion designers were lining ...
