Simon Coates
26 April 2023
Callas and Pasolini, the diva and the director
When Maria Callas met Pier Paolo Pasolini in the late 1960s, the results were predictably explosive
Read the full article16 February 2023
Zen and the art of Antoni Tàpies
How a book of ancient Chinese and Indian texts influenced the work of one of Spain’s greatest modern artists
Read the full article09 February 2023
The end of England: bringing Cornwall’s tensions to a global audience
Bafta-winning film-maker Mark Jenkin is back with Enys Men, and some strong words for the plight facing his home county
Read the full article01 December 2022
The Czech curiosity shop
A new documentary explores the interlocking lives, work and collection of film-makers Jan Švankmajer and Eva Švankmajerová
Read the full article03 November 2022
The man who invented cinema
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was the master of light and shade
Read the full article28 April 2022
Heroes and villains: Ivo van Hove’s heavenly and hellish work
Ivo van Hove, the Bowie collaborator with a taste for the spectacular, returns with a timely, bloody war epic at the Barbican
Read the full article03 March 2022
Belarus exiles’ theatre of war
Back in their homeland, state opposition meant they had to perform in secret. Now in exile, they are bringing their new play to London
Read the full article16 December 2021
William Hogarth and the new borders of art
The master satirist’s complicated relationship with his European contemporaries is explored in a stunning exhibition in London’s Tate Britain.
Read the full article16 September 2021
Is the protest song dead?
Not if the reformed, revived, stripped-down The Specials have anything to say about it.
Read the full article19 August 2021
What’s it like to own a Banksy? How prices and paranoia rise
The secretive artist whose works command millions at auction has returned with new street pieces in Great Yarmouth and other eastern coastal towns. But as prices continue to rise, what is it like to have been one of the early adopters who bought one of his early prints for a song nearly 20 years ago?
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