Art

The Palais Garnier might have been designed for an extravagant party, its wide stairs created to be bedecked with flowers, its sumptuous gilded framework and ornate statues a perfect backdrop for posing in couture. On Thursday night, the…
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Of the many young artists David Salle has mentored, none were ever as challenging as his latest student, who cannot hold a paintbrush or a conversation.“The mountain looks too airbrushed,” Salle informed the algorithm that lives inside…
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I had been waiting for Jackie Bonds and Josh Demas to break up ever since watching that mostly boring three-part special "After the Altar" last month. The only interesting thing in the special happened in the final part, as we learned…
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Sylvia Snowden’s monumental expressionistic paintings hit you in the gut. Bodies arch, hunch and contort, emanating suffering, fear, joy and aspiration. But what really holds your gaze, even more than their misshapen, hyperextended forms…
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Receive free Theatre updatesWe’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Theatrenews every morning.It begins in free fall. Human and economic. A man tumbles to the ground as documentary footage details the plummeting…
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It was an act of mean-spiritedness that shocked people across the political spectrum. In April, a UK government minister ordered a mural of cartoon characters at a reception centre for migrants to be painted over lest children mistook it as…
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Receive free Dance updatesWe’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Dancenews every morning.Two of the UK’s biggest ballet companies are under new management and both directors have boldly opened their autumn seasons…
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Receive free Media updatesWe’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Medianews every morning.I spent a few days this week at King’s College, Cambridge at the convention of the Royal Television Society, a gathering of…
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At the end of his recent memoir, Among Others, the writer Michael Frayn embarks on a rigorous audit of his own body — the “Mantower” as he describes it.“If I’d been constructed to the same standards as a modern tower block there would have…
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Exhibition of the weekRubens and WomenThe rich, heady paintings of Peter Paul Rubens are seen from a fresh perspective. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, from 27 September to 28 JanuaryAlso showingJulie MehretuComplex, multilayered paintings…
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