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Listed: Essential BBC PromsTuesday, 26 May 2015Hottest tickets for seats at the Proms have probably all gone already. Yet the beauty of it is that... Read more... |
Listed: The Very Best of 2015Thursday, 01 January 2015Don't on any account miss the events in the selection you're about to read. Our rival outlets are... Read more... |
Listed: The Facts about Factual TV in 2014Saturday, 27 December 2014It is a truism that the great tradition of documentary filmmaking has long since migrated to the... Read more... |
Listed: Science Fiction in VideogamesTuesday, 25 November 2014By far the majority of interactive art, entertainment and fiction – videogames for want of a better... Read more... |
Listed: The World and Beyond - London Jazz Festival 2014Tuesday, 11 November 2014Jazz. Is there any other term in contemporary culture so widely recognised, yet so difficult to... Read more... |
Listed: Wall Flowers - The Best of BerlinSaturday, 08 November 2014It has long since become a cliché that the news of John F Kennedy’s assassination is implanted on... Read more... |
Listed: theartsdesk's Greatest HitsTuesday, 09 September 2014To celebrate our fifth birthday, we offer you an insight into what you, the readers, have devoured... Read more... |
Listed: The laughter and tears of Robin WilliamsTuesday, 12 August 2014Robin Williams, who has died at the age of 63, was a very American comedian. The flow of invention... Read more... |
Listed: 10 Mozart Operas You've Never Heard (of)Saturday, 28 June 2014Mozart operas – we’ve all been there, whistled the arias, untangled the love triangles (quadrants/... Read more... |
Listed: The Best UK Summer Music Festivals For FamiliesSaturday, 14 June 2014While you give your tent an airing in anticipation of festival season, think about the imaginative... Read more... |
Listed: The World Cup's Most Beautiful GoalsSaturday, 07 June 2014Is football a thing of beauty? It depends who you ask. If you’re that way inclined, it is possible... Read more... |
Listed: 10 Great Trouser RolesThursday, 08 May 2014It's the genre of gender-bending and cross-dressing, where women play warriors and men sing like... Read more... |
Listed: Unmissable BBC PromsSunday, 27 April 2014The first bit of the annual Proms ritual is now out of the way, with the publication of the... Read more... |
Listed: Top 10 Children's Theatre ShowsSaturday, 12 April 2014If you are seeking to keep small children entertained this Easter, there's no need to sit around... Read more... |
Listed: Hauschka's Abandoned CitiesMonday, 07 April 2014Hauschka is a musician and composer from Düsseldorf, performing in what has been dubbed a "post-... Read more... |
Listed: Celebrating Dylan ThomasSunday, 30 March 2014It won’t have escaped the attention of anyone with an ear for poetry that Dylan Thomas turns 100... Read more... |
Listed: The Vikings - Life and LegendTuesday, 04 March 2014The British Museum's exhibition The Vikings: Life and Legend promises to redefine the Viking age... Read more... |
Listed: 10 American paintings before PollockSunday, 16 February 2014The National Gallery recently embarked on a first: they acquired their first American painting. Men... Read more... |
Listed: The Best Uncredited CameosSaturday, 18 January 2014There are no awards, nor nominations. On the plus side there are no publicity chores either. And... Read more... |
Listed: The 12 Derangements of ChristmasSunday, 22 December 2013We at The Arts Desk are as fond as the next person of swans-a-swimming, partridges and pear-trees,... Read more... |
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