"Chiaroscuro" - "light-dark", usually applied to bold contrasts within a single painting - isn't a term I'd have thought a ...

A tray of water, a metallic plate piled with salt, a bubble-producing plastic stick. The kind of tat that looks so cheap you ...

Music can be a life-healing catalyst, the untrammelled essence of heart and mind conveyed human and raw from the soul.

He’s never been shy of plumbing the depths – drawing, with tons of originality and creative energy, from a family and community background steeped in violence, the curse of suicide, and a ...

Ibsen's powerful study of hypocrisy gleams and bristles in the close-up intimacy of the bijou Jermyn Street Theatre. Richard Eyre's version, first seen at the Almeida in 2013, presents the play, its ...

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

Over the last 30 years or so, the Avalanches have proved themselves to be samplers supreme and masters of the cut-up, ...

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

They earned their laurels, too, in the opening concert under Paavo's father Neeme, 89 – undiminished in his passion for the rich and rare, glowing with the new life the youth orchestra has given him ...

What a delightful show this is: a big hit at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe and now enjoying an extended run at Soho Theatre, ...

On the downside, many of these songs would be improved by production that was earthier and less squeaky clean. On the plus side, Twain’s voice has famously suffered health depredations, and its ...

At the start of theartsdesk’s third foray into the wonders of this year’s London Film Festival, let us pause to look back at ...