Arts and Culture

This recipe from iconic Italian restaurant Sale e Pepe in Knightsbridge is testament to a nation that markets its food with remarkable skill

Almost 800 public libraries have shut their doors since the Conservatives came to power. That is 800 too many

There is far more than a cackling cavalier to the Dutch Golden Age painter, the most venerated artist of his time

Ira Sachs’ latest movie is the year’s frankest and most sensual film – a thoughtful and provocative exploration of human emotions

There is no chance of that happening with the current regime – you won’t hear any government minister say “We took the wrong decisions and we need to put it right.”

Toulouse-Lautrec was an aristocrat who recognised in the outliers of society a shared vulnerable otherness

This Danish colloquialism for menstruation is just one of countless slang terms and phrases – often demeaning – that apply to women

If history had been different, Lope de Vega might have been regarded as the greatest dramatist of them all

As Rimbaud’s masterpiece A Season In Hell turns 150, reappraising the short life and wild times of a talented, toxic “damned soul”

A City salad bar was predicted by this columnist 30 years ago

This comforting and easy salad works as a refreshing aside to a barbecue, sun willing, or a main course

Technology is making forged paintings easier to identify, and giving us a chance to appreciate the art and craft of the counterfeiters

Amid strikes and sexism, the Venice Film Festival plays it safe

Makkabi Berlin have become the first Jewish club to play in Germany's premier cup

The Northern Irish rockers on Brexit, Britpop and their blistering new album

There’s no one angrier and more uptight than a westerner who practices a philosophy based on bodily attunement and the renunciation of desire

Eclipsed by contemporaries like Garbo and Dietrich, it’s difficult today to appreciate just what a presence Baclanova was in her heyday

From ‘crispbread phoners’ to ‘Cheryl Coles’, many of the latest slang terms around the world have been coined by technology and global events

Links with British industry and French universities – through ‘rugger diplomacy’ – helped to turn Romania into a surprising hotbed of the sport

I missed out on the crispy pork belly from Cambridge brasserie Six, but you don't have to

A Dutch royal residence has been turned into a huge public art gallery – a lesson for other royal families, perhaps?

Full of intriguing quirks and anecdotes, Andrew Martin’s Metropolitain is nothing short of a love letter to a subterranean railway

Dalí! Hollywood! Rotten eggs! The German electro-rockers pushed more than just musical boundaries

Some on the left will roll their eyes, but redefining patriotism is something Keir Starmer should do. I want to be proud of a forward-looking, multicultural country

Researchers have just added another piece to the jigsaw that is a body from the Copper Age

Restrictions are hampering musicians' ability to work in the EU

Through hard work and determination the actress forged an exalted presence in the French screen canon

A viewing brings some shocking home truths about the state of the rental property market

For the author Maylis de Kerangal, reading one of her books in another language is like hearing a familiar tune on a new instrument

This mushroom recipe is worth cooking and good on a slice or two of sourdough toast

A tour of British and European slang of the past begins with old terms for drinking too much.. and feeling the effects afterwards

The city’s unloved museum of archaeology shines after a makeover that makes its treasure trove of objects sing