Doing The Polka With Sigmar Polke
Kieran Ryan wonders about intense dotted portraits
Culture
Expect to find just about anything under the Arts umbrella – architecture guides, commentary on plays, reviews of galleries, and overviews of different places you can visit.
A Twentieth Century Russian Tragedy
Mario Lepore on a new production of Chekhov's final play
A Lesson in Punk & Style
Fred Fyles gets a fashionable education from Blondie
What A Testament
Fred Fyles is blown away at the Barbican
Moriarty gets messy with money
Birdland is thought-provoking but mainly just confusing, says Chris Witham
Delight your inner Barbie doll
Wedding days: they’re everyone’s opportunity to live out their fairy tale. And, of course, the best way to feel like a princess is to look like a princess – cue the ever-fascinating obsession of the wedding dress.
What’s that in the background?
What are paintings all about anyway?
The Great Cover Up
Rhian Jones discusses the depiction of the male nude in Western art
No Such Sweetness
Max Falkenberg McGillivray reviews a new one-woman play about Syrian refugees at the Young Vic
Turner Round
Kieran Ryan takes the pilgrimage to Margate to see Turner and Frankenthaler
Can you sense a space?
Have you ever been lost in a building? I don’t mean in the physical sense.
An alcoholic bucolic frolic
DramSoc’s spring term production of Jerusalem, directed by Grace Surman, opens with a young girl wearing fairy wings singing the eponymous hymn in the middle of the countryside.