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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.
It followed some...
Swan Lake, Sadler's Wells review - 30 years on, as bold...
How do you refresh a masterpiece? Bringing back his first and still greatest hit, Swan Lake,...
Albums of the Year 2024: Kenny Barron - Beyond This Place
Kenny Barron’s Beyond This Place is glorious. Whereas I’ve found some of the more talked...
Music Reissues Weekly: Vanilla Fudge - Where Is My Mind The...
Vanilla Fudge could provoke a strong reaction. Writing about them in 1982, Tom Hibbert – then best-known for his contributions to Smash Hits...
Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes review - a Hollywood legend,...
It might be a push to call this documentary a feminist slant on...
The Little Foxes, Young Vic review - timeshifted production...
The Young Vic has opened under a new...
Sujo review - cartels through another lens
It’s not often we hear barely a single gunshot in a movie set amid Mexican drug cartels, but that may be the way it is for people who actually...
Album of the Year 2024: Meemo Comma - Decimation of I
I don’t really want to talk about this year. Genuinely.
It’s been so horrific on the macro scale with deranged Fascism and the effects of...
Queer review - Daniel Craig meets William Burroughs
Judging by a Sunday Times interview last weekend, Daniel Craig now enjoys wearing brilliantly-coloured sweaters and extraordinary...
The Legends of Them, Royal Court review - reaching out for s...
I live in Brixton, south London. To get to the tube, I have to cross Windrush Square. Since 2021, I go past the Cherry Groce memorial, which...