Arts and Culture

Belgium is a funny old nation and that's what the most famous statue in Brussels, the Manneken Pis, represents to me

This adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel deserves – at minimum – an Oscar nomination for best picture

What is mere storage space to them represents chunks of our lives that would otherwise go unremembered

The daughter of a songwriter and from a long line of composers, the woman born Isabelle Gall was predestined for a career in music

Pet names, known technically as hypocoristics, often use abbreviation, rhyming, and vowel changes to express familiarity and fondness

For those who want tunes with their travel, Europe is home to an astonishing plethora of annual summer jazz festivals

A feast of festivals, ancient churches, bridge jumping and more make up Europe’s cultural hotspots for 2025

Has director Robert Eggers bitten off more than he can chew with a remake of FW Murnau’s 1922 classic?

Death of England, one of the cultural highlights of 2024, is coming to streaming. But what’s next for playwright Roy Williams?

There will be more sushi and Middle Eastern flavours, Mexican dining will hasten - and Nando’s could start to wane

These are the shows to hunker down with over the coming year

Intimate stories and unbreakable bonds in an exhibition of portraits that dig deep into our European ways of life and death

2025 looks like being an outstanding year for art

A whole host of alumni from the contest will release new music, and perhaps lift spirits, in 2025

We’ll need mechanisms in place to keep us sane and what better mechanism is there to achieve that than getting stuck in to a really good book?

The new peer is peddling misinformation about Bridget Phillipson’s plans for education

A defunct commodities exchange in Paris, owned by a billionaire, is the setting for an exhibition of a radical art movement that used lowly materials to react against consumerism

Colourful stories abound of how local vintners deceived and humiliated German troops in occupied France. But the truth is rather more complex

A Kyiv gallery has defied Russian missile attacks to stage a visceral but tender art competition for artists under 35

The city’s working class banlieues have produced superstars like Kylian Mbappé and Thierry Henry. Could they now take Paris Saint Germain to the next level?

This supposedly heart-warming yuletide classic is the story of a NIMBY preparing to impose a radical moral agenda on his selfish neighbours

A honeymoon on the continent changed everything for American artist Helen Frankenthaler, whose work is being celebrated in Florence and Bilbao this year

Once a forgotten figure, athlete turned activist Werner Seelenbinder is finally getting the credit he is due

The Christmas tree in the Umbrian town of Gubbio in central Italy is so big, you can even switch the lights on from space

The Little Foxes confirms Anne-Marie Duff as a true great

The verb ‘to ask’ may have already been transposed in the past, but it took a lot longer for it to be used as a noun

The almost unbelievable artistic riches of renaissance Florence form the basis of an unmissable exhibition

The story of a family’s French holiday interrupted by the apocalypse tops our round-up of the best books of 2024

It was a big year for centrist dads and reality revivals – but Joe Rogan continued to dominate the podcast world

Much has been said about the increasing polarisation of people in the social media age. We need to remember that no man is an island

We are, slowly, finding our footing when it comes to what we put on our plate