by Sebastian Scotney | Dec 23, 2017 | Music
The London Symphony Orchestra’s final Barbican show of the year – show is more fitting than mere concert – was 90 minutes of unalloyed pleasure and delight; a suitably celebratory curtain call for new music director Simon Rattle. Rattle introduced the work,... 
by Rich Cline | Dec 19, 2017 | Film
Martin McDonagh’s drama earned seven nominations from UK critics, who also singled out smaller films like Lady Macbeth, God’s Own Country, Phantom Thread and Call Me By Your Name, alongside Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk and Paul King’s Paddington... 
by Amanda Holloway | Dec 19, 2017 | Music
Monteverdi’s curtain call Amanda Holloway At the top of my Christmas highlights is John Eliot Gardiner’s trio of Monteverdi operas, compressed into an evening of music at the V&A to coincide with the Opera: Passion, Power & Politics exhibition.... 
by Music Editor | Dec 13, 2017 | Visual Arts
A theatrical event is part of the controversial new Saatchi Gallery exhibition, Art Riot by Simon Tait In March 2012 two members of the feminist punk group Pussy Riot were jailed for two years after the group’s performance in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the... 
by Rich Cline | Dec 11, 2017 | Awards, Film
The London-based media group Dover Street Entertainment is announced as headline sponsor for the event, which will be held at The May Fair Hotel in late-January. As voting gets underway for the 38th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards presented by Dover Street... 