Tuesday 19 June 2012
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Ted Hughes's Crow takes flight
Fresh from War Horse, Handspring’s lifelike creations star in a dark stage version of Ted Hughes’s Crow.
Amazing Spider-Man: First review
Marc Webb's new Spider-Man is the superhero film for the Twilight generation, writes Robbie Collin.
Huge sales of art expected in London
Salerooms are estimating that £555 million of art could be sold in London’s auctions over the next two weeks, writes Colin Gleadell.
Wagner's Ring cycle documentary, review
Wagner's Dream, a documentary film about the enormous task of putting on a new production of Wagner's Ring cycle, enthralls even an opera novice.
Naked 'Auntie' wins £25,000 art prize
American artist Aleah Chapin wins BP Portrait Award for portrait of nude lady called 'Auntie'
Yoko Ono: To The Light, Serpentine Gallery, review
This full-scale retrospective does justice to the Japanese artist's uneven but by no means negligible work, says Richard Dorment.
Andy Warhol: The Portfolios, review
A new exhibition of the American artist's silkscreened prints gives us a good idea of the range and variety of his unique body of work, writes Richard Dorment.
True Love, BBC One, review
Isabel Mohan on part one of True Love, Dominic Savage’s new series of scriptless dramas.
Treasure Island, DVD review
Eddie Izzard excels as Long John Silver in this modern remake of the swashbuckling adventure, says Rachel Ward.
Bobby Womack review: Brilliant and crazy soul
There have been a lot of attempts to drag soul music into the future but it rarely works as brilliantly (if crazily) as on Bobby Womack's new album.
A day of being spoon-fed James Joyce? No thanks
Gillian Reynolds reviews the week in radio, including James Joyce's Ulysses (Radio 4) and Radio 3's The Essay, which asked What is a Nation?
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Top 10 Hay Festival highlights
From Bill Bailey to Harry Belafonte, Martin Chilton's best moments from the literary festival.
The Queen, the Duke and the prints
Alastair Sooke talks to German photographer Thomas Struth about his portrait of the Queen.
The Bee Gees: 10 of the best
Neil McCormick selects his 10 favourite Bee Gees tracks as the world celebrates Robin Gibb.
Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master: trailer
The 1950s-set drama centres on the relationship between the charismatic leader, known as 'the Master', of a faith-based organisation and a young drifter who becomes his right-hand man.
Old Earth, Spitalfield Festival, Village Underground
This remarkable collaboration is a haunting meditation on the human struggle to articulate the ineffable, writes Jane Shilling.
Croydon’s finest
Telegraph View: The borough should choose a safe local figure as its ambassador, like Ronnie Corbett
Edward Burtynsky's OIL at The Photographers' Gallery
The inaugural exhibition from London's reopened Photographers' Gallery examines the pervasive ways oil has impacted upon our lives and altered our landscapes
Die Walküre, Opera North, Leeds Town Hall
Opera North’s semi-staged concert version of this bottomlessly challenging work reaches its half-way mark with all colours flying, writes Rupert Christiansen.
Sketch: Viewers loved the BBC's Jubilee TV (honest)
Michael Deacon sees director-general Mark Thompson tell MPs that the public gave the BBC's Diamond Jubilee coverage "eight out of 10".
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, review
Tom Petty's exceptional songwriting shone through as he and his Heartbreakers played their first UK show for 13 years, writes Andrew Perry.
Naked 'Auntie' wins £25,000 art prize
American artist Aleah Chapin wins BP Portrait Award for portrait of nude lady called 'Auntie'
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Barbican/Sadler’s Wells, review
These two trips to the Far East make for a punishing couple of evenings, says Mark Monahan
Melvyn Tan, Spitalfields Festival, review
Classical pianist Melvyn Tan played Bach with a mixture of sensitivity and virtuosity at Spitalfields Festival, writes Ivan Hewett.
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