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We are bowled over! We knew that theartsdesk.com had plenty of supporters out there – we’ve always had a loyal readership of arts…
Some exhibitions make you feel inspired, others perplexed. Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting at the National Portrait Gallery left me…
We’ve become so used to Bridget Christie taking on big themes – sexism and the menopause among them – that a show more akin to…
“Fuck Thatcher, fuck neoliberalism.” After these words from the stage, an audience response. “Fuck Thatcher” echoes the approving shout…
Mahagonny, the spider-web city sucking in men (and they are, even in this 2026 take, mostly men) with cash to burn, is the terminus of…
In our society, old people are everywhere, but they are everywhere ignored. For while culture loves youth, it often scorns maturity. So the…
There's little reason to arrive early at the cinema these days, now that filmgoers are forced to endure as many advertisements as movie…
William Nicholson’s drama about the short-lived love between the academic and writer CS Lewis and the American poet who initiated a lengthy…
If you stand close to a picture by Georges Seurat, the experience is totally different from being a few feet away. To a certain extent this…
In prehistoric Britain, life was full of Hs. It was hard. It was horribly hard. It was hardly happy. And, according to Jack Nicholls, whose…