At 84, Zimmerman was not young, and had decades of sporadically released, underheard music behind him, starting with his Tony Visconti-produced 1968 debut, Ten Songs (which David Bowie listed in ...

Over the last 30 years or so, the Avalanches have proved themselves to be samplers supreme and masters of the cut-up, ...

"Chiaroscuro" - "light-dark", usually applied to bold contrasts within a single painting - isn't a term I'd have thought a ...

A tray of water, a metallic plate piled with salt, a bubble-producing plastic stick. The kind of tat that looks so cheap you ...

This third and final instalment of Anthony Horowitz’s Susan Ryeland trilogy continues the author’s ingenious mystery-within-a ...

Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine may have more dialogue than all the 1957 films put together, but McDonagh never seems to have thought his theatre-born gabbiness can’t be pasted across into cinema.

Many epic biopics make a messy spread of their protagonist's life (the overrated Oppenheimer is a prime example). Not this ...

Given how relentlessly cheerful his paintings are, you’d have thought Pierre-Auguste Renoir would be a jolly cove. But his ...

It all began over a decade ago when Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant simultaneously read mathematician Andrew Hodges’ biography of ...

Last year I was at the convention of the Association of British Choral Directors in York and, at the end of a long day and ...

Remi Wolf is getting dirty – literally. The album cover depicts her drenched in mud, bits smeared across hair and teeth and skin, but there seems to be an implication, too, of mud as a means of ...

Hail, Mary, full of Grace”, the first words uttered by Gabriel to Mary in Luke's account of the Annunciation, are not heard ...