Two centuries ago, New York City was a tangled collection of streets on the narrowing southern end of Manhattan island. Expansion pointed only one way, and in 1807 a three-person team proposed it be ...

Famously Handel and Bach never met, despite being born in the same year in the same country. So it was fun to see the ...

Cinema has a deep distrust of the devout. Even though many movie types are tied up in all sorts of personal spiritual ...

Things do not look promising at 8.55 PM. Half the 1500-capacity Engine Shed is curtained off. The venue is still far from full. The crowd is mostly between their 30s and their 50s, lots of couples.

Famously Handel and Bach never met, despite being born in the same year in the same country. So it was fun to see the programme for the English Concert’s delightful, vivacious performance in St George ...

Katrin Finch has been at the top her field for a long time now. The Welsh harpist was appointed to the ancient office of Royal Harpist by Prince Charles in 2000, was nominated for a Classical Brit ...

If this album signals where Gorillaz are headed next, it suggests a band that is still adventurous but more grounded than ever. The Mountain stands as a thoughtful, immersive work that rewards ...

The bite of winter, barely registering these past months in London, snapped at my cheeks on arriving at Leeds Railway Station ...

We’ve heard of dad rock, but how about dad techno? This Spanish movie, directed by the French-born Oliver Laxe, immerses us ...

If heart were art, there would be no stopping The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, the 2012 Rachel Joyce novel that became ...

Rose Wylie’s paintings are a blast of fresh air. Direct, anarchic, exuberant and determinedly daft, they make a mockery of the self-importance that so often infects the art world.Now in her nineties, ...

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s semi-satirical thriller The Secret Agent looks back with incredulity, disgust, and ambiguous ...