A Peripatetic Life
After the Titanic: A Life of Derek Mahon, Stephen Enniss, Gill & Macmillan, 2014, 304pp, £26.99 (hardback) Derek Mahon…
Hell on Earth
Goya: The Witches and Old Women Album The Courtauld Gallery 26 February – 25 May 2015 Anyone fortunate enough…
Earthy Intimacy
L’Ormindo, Francesco Cavalli, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse 3 February – 5 March 2015 ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, John Ford,…
In Gauguin’s Shadow
Emile Bernard, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris and Kunsthalle, Bremen Emile Bernard (1868-1941), Musée D’Orsay/Glammarion, $39 17 September 2014 –…
Tough as Old Boots
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1957–1965 edited by George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn and Lois More Overbeck,…
A Glinting Scree
A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde, Lavinia Greenlaw, Faber and Faber, 2014, 240pp, £16.99 (hardback) The poetic image can…
An Artist at Work
Rembrandt: The Late Works, 15 October – 18 January, Sainsbury Wing, The National Gallery (The Rijksmuseum, 12 February –17…
Carry That Weight
Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love, James Booth, Bloomsbury, 2014, 544pp, £25 (hardback) Major modern poets are often saddled…
God’s Lonely Men: The Two De Niros
The actor Robert De Niro established his cinematic legacy playing taciturn characters whose individual standards, expectations, and inarticulateness place…
The Magic Realism of Julio Larraz
Julio Larraz Rules of Engagement ContiniArtUK Gallery 3 October – 24 November 2014 Julio Larraz, who comes from Cuba,…
Master Portrait Painter
Giovanni Battista Moroni Royal Academy 25 October 2014 – 25 January 2015 The gift of the true master portrait…
Festung Europa Hitler’s Atlantic Wall in Photographs
The Atlantic Wall – Hitler’s Coastal Fortress from the Arctic to the Pyrenees, Ianthe Ruthven with a foreword by…
Pleasing People Seriously
Benjamin Britten, War Requiem, Royal Albert Hall, Remembrance Sunday, 9 November 2014 at 3.30pm, with Evelina Dobračeva (soprano), Stephan…
The Poetry and The Pity
Some Desperate Glory, Max Egremont, Picador, 2014, 336pp, £20 (hardback) Horses Between Our Legs, Patricia McCarthy, Agenda Editions, 2014,…
Art for Art’s Sake
A Victorian Obsession Leighton House Museum 14 November 2014 – 29 March 2015 A Victorian Obsession, an exhibition at…
A Stagnant Art World
Post Pop: East Meets West, The Saatchi Gallery, 26 November 2014 – 23 February 2015 Sturtevant: Double Trouble, The…
Aiming a Wild Kick
Roger Hilton Jonathan Clark Fine Art (by appointment) 18 Park Walk, London SW10 0AQ <info@jcfa.co.uk> Why do some artists…
This is What a Feminist Looks Like
Allen Jones RA Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington Gardens, London 13 November 2014 – 25 January 2015 Exhibition curator…
Thrum in Tandem
An Aviary of Small Birds, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Carcanet, 2014, 88pp, £9.95 (paperback) The Weather Wheel, Mimi Khalvati, Carcanet,…
Death’s Dream Kingdom
Fire Songs, David Harsent, Faber and Faber, 2014, 80pp, £12.99 (hardback) Sailing the Forest – Selected Poems, Robin Robertson,…
Zhivago and Ulysses
The Most Dangerous Book, Kevin Birmingham, Head of Zeus, 2014, 432pp, £20 (hardback) The Zhivago Affair, Peter Finn and…
Free Radical
Egon Schiele – The Radical Nude The Courtauld Gallery, London 23 October 2014 – 18 January 2015 Vienna has…
The Impossible Exile
The Impossible Exile – Stefan Zweig at the End of the World, George Prochnik, Other Press, New York, 2014,…
The Girl of the Atomic Bomb
Opera Holland Park, May-August 2014 Giacomo Puccini, La Fanciulla del West Gioachino Rossini, Il Barbiere di Siviglia Francesco Cilea,…
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