There are warnings on every screening-room door at the LFF; Rafael Manuel’s award-winning Filipiñana carries an unnecessary one about sexist language and attitudes. This beautifully shot but mannered ...

Older women, even middle-class women, are living with unbearable stress. Don’t believe me? Well, look around you. The stress of living up to slogans about “having it all”; the stress of divorce and ...

That body art, he explains, represents how Chladni have been observed since ancient times, and can be seen throughout the natural world: tortoiseshells, leopard spots, zebra stripes, and, when sliced ...

How much further Ibragimova and a slightly different team - all women now - have taken that G minor Quartet than on their already superb BIS recording. Haydn wasn't exactly young when he made this ...

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

There were times when this event felt more like a devotional rite than a concert. Thirteen thousand of us had gathered at the ...

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

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 ...

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

That sound you may be hearing most evenings toward the lower end of St Martin's Lane is likely to be the roof being blown off ...