Review of Henri Matisse’s The Cut-Outs at Tate Modern
Henri Matisse’s exhibition has been much touted, highlighted by the iconic falling Icarus amid a starry sky, but are these…
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A Dog’s Life: West London’s Pampered Pooches
Author: Aoife Moriarty Mirroring the lives of their affluent owners, the dogs and cats of West London are beginning to…
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Review of Henri Matisse's The Cut-Outs at Tate Modern
There is much to gain by seeing these pieces in the flesh, as not only are they a whirling carousel…
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Alexandre Singh on his fantastical, theatrical artwork The Humans
Alexandre Singh (born Bordeaux, 1980) won the Prix Meurice, awarded by Le Meurice hotel in Paris to a French Contemporary…
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Best contemporary short story collections
In recent years the short story has experienced something of a ‘boom’, with more collections being published, along with a…
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Posher prime ministers, small budget deficits, report says
Do Eton and Oxbridge graduates make better prime ministers? That’s what research seems to suggest, with a new paper arguing…
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Football’s moral bankruptcy shames the globe and irritates fans
Football is in the throes of an identity crisis as big money, unsuitable owners and utterly inappropriate countries use the…
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Worst literary dystopia to live in?
Author: Aoife Moriarty Some of this genre’s most famous works – including Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We and Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four –…
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Zak Smith on why suspect tycoons and corrupt countries are making the beautiful game ugly Football is in the throes…
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London’s oligarchs needn’t fear sanctions over Crimea
From restaurants in Knightsbridge to estate agents in Mayfair, London is addicted to Russian money. After the crash of 2007,…
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London’s trays of caviar and Krug-filled ice buckets have begun to shake under the ominous rumbling of Russian tanks on…
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‘Vikings: Life & Legend’ at the British Museum shames first-class objects with lazy presentation
The British Museum’s latest exhibition ‘Vikings: Life and Legend’ has been long-awaited and much-hyped – proof, if nothing else, that…
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'Vikings: Life & Legend' at the British Museum shames first-class objects with lazy presentation
The placing of such an exhibition at the nation’s symbolic archaeological heart, the British Museum’s new Sainsbury Exhibition Gallery, affirms…
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Stow your tray table – it’s time to join the Mile High Club
For most frequent travellers, gaining membership to the Mile High Club remains top of their bucket list, and with an…
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Through cinema and popular culture, the cool and powerful have always gotten away with it – from Ralph Fiennes to…
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British politicians could learn some va-va-voom from Francois Hollande
L’AFFAIRE Politicians the world over must be wishing they were French. This isn’t an obvious choice, but it would seem…
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Beyond comic books, why are there so few wealthy people in literature?
A WEALTH OF OPPORTUNITY Something I have touched on before here: then, whimsically; now, in earnest. How does fiction deal…
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Review: La Fille du Régiment, Royal Opera House
I scored top marks with Monsieur Legris on Monday by taking him to the first night of the revival of…
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Melinda Hughes hears stratospheric top notes and sonorous bellowing in a hilarious spectacle of frivolity and fun I scored top…
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Is the age of the schmoozer over?
In a connectivity-obsessed society, the schmoozer – the chancer, the wide boy, the not-always-truthful – is being marginalised. The increasing…
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