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Album: Dinosaur Jr - Sweep It Into Space
Amherst's favourite grunge sons serve up another near flawless album
tv

Tangled secrets in a dirty old town

Three encounters with the great actor who has died at the age of 52

Astounding history of how the Met went rotten from within
film

Two John Ford Westerns starring Harry Carey, progenitor of true grit

Three encounters with the great actor who has died at the age of 52

Carey Mulligan scintillates in Oscar-nominated romcom-noir
new music

Amherst's favourite grunge sons serve up another near flawless album

Atmospheric prog-rock gem from 1970 gets the multi-disc treatment
classical

Six (and seven) sing six English Renaissance motets

World premiere of Huw Watkins’ Second Symphony in filmed performance

Lesser-known Czech passions preface a beloved old favourite
opera

More time needed in knocking this fascinating Brecht/Weill double bill into shape

Ravel takes a Kensington lunchbreak, in an operatic updating for the YouTube generation

Staging and singing in sync for the Ring’s scherzo
theatre

Yasmeen Khan's spoof has a big heart

Affectionate aplomb from Oliver Ford Davies and Stephen Boxer in Ben Brown's new play

Three encounters with the great actor who has died at the age of 52
dance

How one major ballet company survived to dance another day

It's been a rough ride for the seasonal cash cow. Here's how ballet companies coped
comedy

Reflections that make you stop and think

Livestreamed variety evening is terrific fun

Anniversary release for Fawlty Towers vinyl
Books

The futility of capturing music with words shows in this beguiling attempt at “big history”

Precipitous publication may mean this feat of research fails to make its mark

How to understand a language if you don't understand yourself
visual arts

Three decades on and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum mystery is still hot

Prize-winning photographers respond to the pandemic

A survey of female potters explores ancient ubiquity and the allure of pure form
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