Arts and Culture

Quo Vadis is fun but Rossellini's neorealism showed us Rome as it was

The Third Man turns 75

The new Enzo Mari exhibition at London’s Design Museum offers a rare glimpse at the artist's intentions

Casting decisions put the Bard at the centre of debate about Britishness

If I want to see the Alps nowadays, all I have to do is pick up my View-Master, point it in the direction of a light source, and begin depressing the lever

The Italian will be forever remembered for a wordless walk in a Viennese cemetery

Edvard Grieg may have been Norway’s greatest classical composer, but he actually inherited his name from his Scottish forebears

Thanks to a letter about delivery, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula was finally attributed to its great master

Two generations ago, the chaos of Latin America inspired a wave of remarkable fiction. Now the patterns are repeating

The last-minute cancellation of the city’s intimate and unpretentious book festival Aye Write is an act of cultural vandalism

Nikita Teryoshin’s chilling photos of ‘The back office of war’

It is sad and diminishing that our government is now effectively telling an important community it is no longer wanted

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s cinema, books and streaming

Both Welles and Frank Capra were masters of portraying the crooked side of the American Dream

Readers should keep an eye open for vote-swapping websites in the run-up to the general election

Amid all the glories of Paris, the Pompidou Centre stands as a monument to modernism and to the man whose name it bears

You Are Not Alone, a powerful new documentary, follows the horrific attack that gripped Spain

An 85-year-old delivers vulnerability beneath the bravado in an astonishing late-career performance

Convincing us to buy smaller versions of appliances we already own is one of capitalism’s big cons

A pilgrimage on foot from London to Canterbury is par for the course of this very pedestrian life

A dream provided an epitaph inadvertently appropriate for a man who spent his life producing art and literature that shocked and appalled the unsuspecting

People may assume that the word ‘cravat’ comes from French, but its ultimate linguistic origin is much more complicated

Off the west coast of Norway lies an island luring countless tourists to its shores for its salmon

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s theatre, television, books and cinema

Joe gave women agency, even if they were wearing an apron; even if they were frightened about losing a man

ECM has been producing stylish jazz since 1969. But with its founder now 80, where do its solemn, spacious sounds go next?

The Judgement of Paris gives up its myriad secrets at the National Gallery

The Montenegrin has been the subject of a mock trial and effigy-burning over his latest novel, Anomaly

The paper’s attacks on Angela Rayner are yet another example of its rank hypocrisy

Despite some attempts at prohibition, the tradition goes on in Spain. Like that of the bulls, its own demise will be a long, drawn-out affair

The actor – reliably excellent as the singer’s father, Mitch, in Back to Black – on addiction, social media rage and antisemitism

Opening Night is intelligent, unusual and unforgettable