Arts and Culture

When the artist died in Rome in 1564, he had one more remarkable journey still to make

A restaurant in Notting Hill is turning heads thanks to its new corkage policy: want to bring your own wine into Dorian? It’ll cost you £100

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

The cinematographer not only understood what a camera is meant to do, he visually understood what cinema should do

The Bleeding Tree is startling and compelling

A sublime look at a hidden musical prodigy

Tom Holland is let down by a bizarre staging of Romeo & Juliet

A stage revival of the TV classic still packs a punch

A post office queue leads to a disarming encounter

Even the world’s most prominent linguistics experts cannot agree on when humans first acquired the capacity for language

Before Segovia, the guitar was not an instrument to be taken seriously. In a matter of minutes, everything changed

If the political food lens is switched on, the Labour leader is something of a masterchef

Great political mantras started with “Liberté, égalité, fraternité”. Can we expect anything as inspiring in this election?

Many actors, in real life, are the opposite of who they portray or seem to be

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

The Champions League final explains why sport is so compelling – because it tells and retells the tales that we long to hear

Born an East Berliner, Jenny Erpenbeck has won the International Booker for her sensitive insight on life behind and beyond borders

Just when cinema really needs a bit of sunshine and uplift, along comes a Megaflopolis

A little morsel of madeleines, put it in a teaspoon and dipped in tea, summons memories of In Search of Lost Time

Paola Totaro’s ‘immigrant’s love letter to Britain’ reminded our readers of all the good things about the country, and moved some to tears

A dreamlike lost masterpiece about a writer’s fixation with Dostoevsky – a man who would have hated him

The picture of Northern Ireland painted by the hit BBC drama series is tense, shocking – and entirely accurate

Amsterdam prepares for Art Week against a backdrop of a new government keen to end culture funding

Four days after surviving a huge crash, his love of being behind the wheel was too strong to resist

Why the fouée – soft, airy bread similar to pitta – hasn’t crossed the Channel is a mystery

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

In her elusive beauty and skill, Arletty was the rival to Garbo

Between 350AD and 600AD, ‘boat people’ took Brittonic Celtic across the Channel from south-west England to Normandy and Brittany

On the eve of its five-year closure, the Centre Pompidou is hosting an exhibition of Constantin Brâncuși’s work that is only the second of its kind in France

Ideas from Europe can increase participation in the arts for those from lower-income backgrounds

The art that brought Paris back from the dead

A new book charts the surprising passion in Ukraine for cricket, the country’s fastest-growing sport – until the Russians invaded