Arts and Culture

The surprising European roots of stories like Beauty And The Beast reach back to the Bronze Age

This Basque dish is easy to prepare, delicious and an easy way to support British fishing

Missing the country's second World Cup in a row, Italy's European Championship victory last summer now appears like a blue mirage

With the release of True Things, has UK cinema finally grown up enough to depict sex acts on screen without sniggering?

The unexpectedly timely Postwar Modern at the Barbican showcases the ability of refugee artists to create great work after escaping conflict

An email about an old family friend stirs ruminations on mysteries and memories

It has two meanings and a fascinating new use. Now read on... if you can be bothered, that is

A new museum dedicated to the Swedish dance star has more in common with its earnest predecessors than at first seems the case

The Johnny Hallyday who took the Albert Hall stage one night 10 years ago was the culmination of 50 years of myth-making

Republicanism may not be in the DNA of this country, but maybe it is in Jamaica's

To celebrate Jock McFadyen’s 70th birthday, the Royal Academy’s retrospective features 30 years of paintings of the East End of London

The actual stand-up in Netflix's new dramedy is rarely as funny as it is supposed to be, but the characters are so vivid it barely matters

Ruth Wilson is a serious actor, but this is a singularly boring piece of theatre

In Testament, an exhibition at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, contemporary artists have set about ripping up the traditional concept of statues

In solidarity with Ukraine, the fashion world has adopted the country’s colours into its spring wardrobe. But it’s far from the first time that couture and politics have gone hand in hand

With more than 100m albums sold, the Anglo-Italian could afford to be sanguine about critical coolness towards his work

Good borscht cannot be cooked quickly - so if you don’t have time now, save this recipe until you have enough

Restrictions on freedom of movement after Brexit have left British competitive cyclists struggling to gain the experience they need to make it

PM Mark Rutte has apologised for atrocities in Indonesia, but some are still nostalgic for days of empire

Not for the first time in recent history, Barcelona is playing beautifully while living on bank loans that almost defy financial gravity

Our columnist explains why the world is prejudice towards some of the country's dishes, except for their bread

Volodymyr Zelensky has taken us to a new reality which resembles our past more than our future

Online events have kept us going during Covid, but nothing can replace the real thing

Peter The Great and Nicholas II were part of a centuries-long effort to suppress the language

The Norwegian singer's new album is an undeniably dreamlike, immersive experience

A superb new film may be disowned by its director – because it is set in Russia

The trailblazing artist has joined the ranks of the few artists who have enough work to more than fill two major European shows at the same time

A Netflix biopic of the woman considered Poland's Marilyn Monroe fails to delve in any satisfying way into the interesting story it has to tell

Reasonably daring when first performed in 2009, Mike Bartlett's Cock now feels all mouth and no trousers

Lili Damita began her life as a revue star, ended it as a broken-hearted recluse and married Errol Flynn in between

How a disastrously expensive baseball signing gave his name to a new form of aleatoric art

PETER TRUDGILL on the schools that took children away from their homes and forced them to abandon their own language and practices