The art of the dancer

Sandra Turnbull used to manage the Eurythmics. Now she paints lap-dancers. She talks to Joel Taylor about her art

AS Degas sculpted ballet dancers, Sandra Turnbull chooses to paint lap dancers and her highly charged and physical... > more

The rare recording of George Bernard Shaw - In 1930 the playwright George Bernard Shaw presented a toast to Albert Einstein at the Savoy hotel. > more

Boffin of Bletchley who was a bricklayer's son - The New York Times carries a slogan every day: "All the news that's fit to print." Recently it ran some headlines... > more

A community's photo album - KILBURN in 1972 was a community facing rapid change. Massive new investment in the area – one of the poorest in London...> more

Did Falkender really write the Lavender list? - MY first impression of Harold Wilson was of a plump tabby cat, puffing... > more

A prophet and painter years ahead of her time - HILMA Klint described herself as an atom in the universe. But the revelations surrounding a series of...> more

The garden of delight for Bafta-winning Lia - URBAN and rural worlds collide in Shakespeare’s As You Like It as characters flee inner-city pressures into...> more

Laugh your head off, or have it lopped off - THE Duke of Edinburgh’s man servant walked out of the Cartoon Museum in Bloomsbury last week with....> more

Leigh and the art of ad hoc film-making - ACCLAIMED film and theatre director Mike Leigh gave his audience a... > more

Islamic art and the Jewish connoisseur - BUYING art is not an investment – it is about safeguarding cultural items for...> more

Kevin and Tom cook up Moore comic fun - For actor Kevin Bishop playing Dudley Moore on stage was a real eye-opener, writes Peter Gruner. > more

Tales by a Russian master - WHEN Clare Kitson started to publicise her book on film masterpiece The Tale of Tales, she knew she was up against it. > more

Drama as Gayle puts The Bard behind bars - Stage and screen star Gayle Hunnicutt is bringing Shakespeare to prison inmates around the country writes Gerald > more

Book festival open to all - It's Jewish Book Week and with over 50 events and a host of top names there's bound to be something for everyone, writes Dan Carrier > more

Betjeman's great defender - A N Wilson's biography of John Betjeman shows the late poet laureate as a product of his Highgate childhood, writes Jane Wright > more

Wanda’s building sight - GETTING caught in the traffic around the massive rebuilding at the King’s Cross development was the inspiration for a new exhibition > more

Chasing Rimbaud through our streets - WHO would have thought that in Camden there once lived in 1873 two great French poets > more

Generations join for a theatrical triumph - THE Tower Theatre Company, which was left in severe difficulties after losing its Islington home of more than 50 years > more

Playwright emerges from obscurity with a tale of incest – Playwright John Symonds has lived in relative obscurity in Hampstead for 40 years...> more