literature
Green Man Festival 2010, Glanusk CastleWednesday, 25 August 2010
If there's one festival in Britain where people are ready for the rain, it's the Green Man. After all, nobody goes to the Brecon Beacons to sunbathe, right? The weekend, which began the spate of boutique and specialist festivals that dominate the... Read more... |
My Summer Reading: Theatre Designer Tobias HoheiselWednesday, 25 August 2010
Third in our summer book extracts series is the theatre designer Tobias Hoheisel, whose designs for Glyndebourne Opera's Janáček productions remain iconic, and more recently designed English National Opera's Boris Godunov.Born in Frankfurt, Hoheisel... Read more... |
My Summer Reading: Songwriter Tom RussellMonday, 23 August 2010
Second up in theartsdesk's short series of recommended reads is Tom Russell, the Texan musician who has a reputation as the last great American songwriter. His 25 albums stray from cowboy music to "folk opera" - which makes his reading selections... Read more... |
My Summer Reading: Ballerina Tamara RojoThursday, 19 August 2010
In the first of a short summer series in which artists and performers tell theartsdesk about what they're reading, ballerina Tamara Rojo talks about the books she's taken with her on holiday, and what she's enjoyed reading. We run short... Read more... |
In Their Own Words: British Novelists, BBC FourMonday, 16 August 2010
Every great novel is a world, and every great novelist responds to and recreates their own time in their own image. Therefore how could a three-part documentary series possibly cover that fertile period in British literature that took in both world... Read more... |
Latitude Festival, SuffolkTuesday, 20 July 2010
So little time, so much stuff to see: that, in essence, is the story of Latitude. Now in its fifth year, this Suffolk festival offers a bewildering cultural cornucopia: music, theatre, dance, cabaret, comedy, circus, literature, poetry, as well as... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Buxton: The Buxton FestivalSunday, 18 July 2010
As I alight from the train at Macclesfield and scramble into the back of the taxi which will take me on the 20-minute journey across the Pennines to Buxton and its eponymous festival, the driver announces with grim satisfaction, “I am now going to... Read more... |
La Bête, Comedy TheatreWednesday, 07 July 2010
Infamously, the first production of La Bête, David Hirson's literary satire set in 17th-century France and written in rhyming couplets, closed in New York after only 25 performances. No such bleak fate is likely to attend this London (and Broadway-... Read more... |
TAD art writer shortlisted for book awardSaturday, 03 July 2010One of theartsdesk's founder-writers, Mark Hudson, has been shortlisted in the biography category of the annual Spear’s Book Awards, for his book Titian, the Last Days. Hudson did not intend to write a conventional biography of the Venetian artist,... Read more... |
Interview: Martin Amis on 'The Whole Book-To-Film Department'Friday, 21 May 2010
Martin Amis always had his own idea of who should play John Self, the anti-heroic slob narrator of Money. "The only regret I have in the whole book-to-film department,” he told me, “is that Gary Oldman never played John Self. We had a meeting with... Read more... |
Resonances at the Wallace CollectionMonday, 10 May 2010
It's an admirable project: to recast the interiors of stately homes as immersive artworks, a musical recital combined with sound installations designed to make the viewer look anew at their surroundings. Certainly as I entered the hallway of... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Psychoanalyst Adam PhillipsSaturday, 17 April 2010
Born in 1954, Adam Phillips is a leading psychoanalyst, literary critic and author. For 17 years he worked as a child psychotherapist in the NHS before moving into private practice to work with adults. As well as being a self-confessed "sceptical"... Read more... |
