Arts and Culture

In the high season Alba is a frenetic, whirling fungal infection of a time

Thomas Vinterberg founded Dogma 95 and changed the movie industry for ever. Is another revolution possible – and what would it look like?

In a tense year, a new Athens exhibition celebrates our precious freedom to vote

Across the US, the authorities are banning books. If Trump gets into the White House, the censorship could get even worse

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

A play that’s as light and refreshing as a glass of champagne

Europe's greatest ever treasure hunt is over, leaving thousands bereft

The word repechage was heard regularly at this summer’s Olympics, but its modern usage bears little relation to its original meaning

Joker: Folie à Deux takes music and makes it a medium for deception, pain and lethal misunderstanding

Constable’s painting has become an icon of Englishness. But its first cheerleaders were French

After co-writing The Thick of It and Veep, Ian Martin channels his most absurd politician yet – Boris Johnson

The male film director who puts powerful females first

The biggest-selling Portuguese music artist in history was instrumental in popularising the fado genre worldwide

Francis Ford Coppola’s hell-for-leather sci-fi epic was 40 years in the making and is an extraordinary film that defies convention

Daring choices are vindicated in the writer’s brilliant new novel about a chess player, his brother and their family

The exhibition that the artist planned finally arrives in London, 119 years late

The French photographer took half a million pictures in his life. It took only one to restore his reputation and bring him wealth and controversy

Many shows come with a content warning, but the poignant and bold My English Persian Kitchen comes with an allergy warning

The Italian photographer who captured the magic in the everyday

Photographer Christoph Irrgang returns to the sites where masterpieces were painted to see how much they have changed

The Outrun, directed by Nora Fingscheidt, tackles alcoholism, sobriety and an outsider’s search for the soul of Europe

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

The trailblazing French actress defied Hollywood’s ageism to win an Academy Award for Room at the Top

Ben Whishaw delights his fans, but the yawnometer goes off the scale

The Noel Coward play that became a hit film gets a new lease of life

Flemish physician Jan Baptist van Helmont was the first to recognise gases other than air, and coined the word ‘gas’, from the Greek ‘chaos’

A combination of deep thinking, a fascination with the everyday and a playful wit produced some of the most groundbreaking fiction of the 20th century

Spanish beef is being celebrated in the best possible way, on the corner of two streets in the City of London

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