Review: The Exterminating Angel, Royal Opera House
Thomas Adès’ new surrealist masterpiece beautifully and melodically portrays the horror of a dinner party gone wrong, writes Melinda Hughes…
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Goodbye to All That
We can learn some cautionary lessons from a new biography of Sir Philip Sassoon, the Gatsby of inter-war British politics…
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Book reviews: ‘Kenneth Clark’ and ‘The Undoing Project’
Peter York on a revealing biography of a man who defined the Establishment, and Christopher Silvester on Michael Lewis’s tale…
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The ultimate HNW egg hunt
Make like a Tsar and buy your loved ones a Faberge egg this Easter – if you can find one…
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Spear’s party in Pall Mall celebrates the great English country house
Philip Mould Gallery hosts a glittering crowd for the launch of Jeremy Musson’s book on the life and works of…
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Review: Concrete Poetry at Richard Saltoun
An exhibition of British Concrete Poetry offers profundity and satire, writes Christopher Jackson Concrete poetry? Let me explain. If you’re…
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Ex-banker turned painter Steven Manolis on why art is the best business
The former mortgage securities creator tells Anthony Haden-Guest why he turned his back on the financial big-time to become a…
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Review: Calm abstraction comes to Soho (★★★★)
Sol LeWitt, Gabriel Orozco, Ettore Spalletti, Niele Toroni and Gerhard Richter delight at the Marian Goodman Gallery (once you get…
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Exhibition: Hockney’s late run
David Hockney already belongs with the greats and he’s not done yet as the current Tate Britain exhibition proves, writes…
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Review: ‘Mindhorn’ ★★★★
Julian Barratt stars as the deluded actor who desperately attempts to turn a series of brutal murders into an opportunity…
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Impressionism Down Under
‘Australia’s impressionists’ at The National Gallery in London shows that the intrepid painter John Russell deserves to be better known…
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Book review: ‘Rethinking Reputational Risk’
PwC’s Oscars gaff brings reputational risk into the spotlight, but reading a copy of Anthony Fitzsimmons and Derek Atkins’ latest…
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London art market: Brexit nightmare on Cork Street?
Does Brexit spell doom for London’s £10.8 billion art market, asks Olenka Hamilton A week after the UK voted to…
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Review: Gurinder Chadha’s ‘Viceroy’s House’
Accessible, enlightening and occasionally clumsy, the latest offering from Bend it Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha poignantly highlights a little…
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Europe gets its first school for little emperors – in London
As global Britain gears up for Brexit, the timing couldn’t be better for Europe’s first English-Mandarin bilingual school to open…
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What’s wrong with the National Trust (and its tea rooms)
The conservator of British civilisation has ‘lost its local heart’, laments Clive Aslet I half knew I was making a…
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Book reviews: ‘Negroland’ and ‘The Long Weekend’
Christopher Silvester on the chronicle of one woman’s life as a member of Chicago’s black elite, and Mark Le Fanu…
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Interview: Philipp Rudolf Humm on moving away from abstraction
The former telecoms titan tells Victoria Coleman-Smith how a personal crisis ignited a lifelong passion For many people a lucrative…
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Eating your way to happiness
Food writer and mental health campaigner Rachel Kelly reveals that the right food can make us healthier of mind as…
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ZEDRA at the V&A dazzles with official London launch
Spear’s was in attendance for ZEDRA’s London launch party at the V&A last night with the likes of Lord Frederick…
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