Messing about for on the water - A WEEKEND spent driving an ageing juggernaut through the backyards of London’s industrial heartlands. Doesn’t sound ...>more
One final push as Spirit drama festival gets into gear - MATT Ball doesn’t get much sleep. A few hours a night, if he’s lucky. Over the past few months the ...>more
William Hall's rocky road as he chased the stars of Hollywood - WILLIAM Hall’s office at the top of his Highgate home is decked out in memorabilia, the fruits of a ...>more
A Frenchman's American dream - FROM his paintings and posters you would think he was an American, steeped in its culture of flashy fast cars amid neon light...>more
Mouse heads for star billing - “WHEN Islington artist Nick Botting was commissioned to paint actor singer Michael Ball it was with the understanding that the ...>more
We laughed, cried and drank - A PHOENIX entered my life in October 1966, when I first met the Irish writer Nuala O’Faolain, who died on May 9. Nuala not so much... >more
A sight of the great unseen - FRANCES Newman used to be a nurse at University College London Hospital before she became an artist. And for the past 18... >more
Hospital with an art condition - THE Scene Unseen exhibition showing at University College London Hospital is a nurse’s tribute to those who spend every working ...>more
Poets stay loyal to the spirit of the Pentameters - IN the summer of 1968, as the spirit of revolution raged in Paris, a group of poets, artists and musicians gathered ...>more
Animal search is a bit hit and myth - SEARCHING for myths is hard work – just ask cryptozoologist Richard Freeman. In pursuit of the world’s “anomalous and ...>more
'Hitler shook the tree and we collected the apples' - WHEN artists fled for their lives from Nazi Germany in the 1930s, Hampstead became a destination for many and...>more
Painful truth of torture examined - UNDER a national crisis,” says Spencer Tracy in his summary at the end of the 1961 film Judgement at Nuremberg. > more
A historian's vision of the troubles ahead - IF the past informs us about the future, Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm can provide a fascinating glimpse of what...>more
‘She soars, she floats and she is operatic’ - WHEN Gemma Rosefield was five, she had piano lessons. “Don’t waste your money,” said the teacher to her parents. >more
Turning over a second-hand leaf - IT has survived the arrival of congestion charge zone and the internet and the rise of the chain store book outlets. The Amwell Book...>more
The state they’re in, 60 years on - IS the 60th anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel a date for celebration, or reflection? Ivor Dembina, the Jewish compere ...>more
The judge who ended up on the ‘most wanted’ list - HE'S an eligible man – and a lucky one. When His Honour Judge Christopher Osgood sadly becomes a widower...>more
It’s life drawing: but not as we’ve come to know it - THE MYSTERY art collector was so annoyed by the lack of basic draughtsmanship in contemporary art he...>more
Stirring songs of Spain, two centuries later- TWO hundred years ago in May, there was a huge uprising in Spain, and England was the destination of a wave of ...>more
The stories sleeping lions can tell - AWARD-winning American novelist Audrey Niffenegger, who travels from her Chicago home to work as a tour guide at ...>more
Chatting round at Sigmund’s - THEY are the kind of guests the ghost of Sigmund Freud would welcome, if he were stalking the corridors of the Hampstead home where ...>more
McCartney’s record goes platinum - LIFE begins at 40. At least it has with a bang for ebullient James Hyman, whose belief in the British art market has given him ...>more
Milein’s window on the world of workmen - THE pictures feature some of the most iconic names in arts and letters of the 20th century – alongside sketches and paintings...>more
Mike Leigh: Happy talk - WATCH Sally Hawkins cy c ling through Holborn to the jovial harrumphs of a brass band, her halcyon clubbing episode at Koko or the ...>more
Artist’s ‘poem’ for a neighbour who told her to paint- Stevas, who is curating the art show Poem for Fanya at Camden Town’s Theatro Technis this week, has a tale to ...>more
Ex-comrades everywhere... - LORD Denis Healey, a former Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, was once asked which was the biggest party in the House of Lords. > more
CND: or how Derrick learned to make movies and hate the bomb - WHEN Richard Burton got the call he was busy working on John Osborne’s play Look... > more
Reporting from Iraq: ‘anyone different is a potential target’ - THE Independent’s defence correspondent Kim Sengupta dwells in a house in Highgate when... > more
Calling style-conscious cyclists - BOBBIN Bicycles is the type of business that would have been inconceivable as little as five years ago.>more
Historic take on the birth of Modernism- FROM John Sloan’s first tentative forays into Modernism to the amorphous, paint-splattered symphonies of Jackson ...>more
Timely reminders of a beautiful borough - TEACHING keep fit provided artist John Joseph with more than just a living while he spent his spare time painting.>more
So many changes in such a short time - PROCLAIMED as the “doyenne of columnists”, Katharine Whitehorn has observed and passed comment on many of...>more
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