Izzy Smith

Articles By Izzy Smith

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It seemed impossible and yet, the other evening, while idly flicking through emails, I learned the unimaginable:...

Even with a chill wind blowing from the Sussex Downs, this copper-bottomed Overture-Concerto-Symphony Sunday matinée was guaranteed...

Thomas Pynchon’s saturnine '70s novel Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) begins with “[a] screaming [that] comes across the sky. It has happened...

In an era when toxic masculinity has become a clichéd accusation to throw at any portrait of men behaving macho, it’s fascinating to revisit...

On a night when any brooks running past the Wigmore...

"Off-grid" wasn't a thing in the mid-'70s. Sure, people...

Lubaina Himid won the Turner Prize in 2017 for the retrospective she held jointly at...

What happens in an orchestra when your designated conductor for three gigs at the end of the week phones in with Covid on Monday morning? By...

In Paris on a business trip in 1916, Wilhelm Hansen was no doubt...

Saxophonist Kenny G knows exactly what buttons he needs to press to upset the...