'Rituel pour une métamorphose' ©Cosimo Micro Magliocca THEATRE & DANCE May 22, 2013

Rituel pour une métamorphose, Paris

Comédie’s first Arabic-language production plays to its strengths

Culture columns

Curiosity didn’t really kill the cat
A new exhibition at Margate’s Turner Contemporary gallery celebrates the wonder of the wandering mind
Europe casts Hollywood as the bad-guy
Breathless (1959 France) aka À Bout de Souffle Directed by Jean-Luc Godard Shown: Jean-Paul Belmondo (as Michel Poiccard alias Laszlo Kovacs), Jean Seberg (as Patricia Franchini) ©Imperia/Photofest
European film-makers claim that the liberalisation of the industry would lead to the destruction of culture
A$AP Rocky at the Brixton Academy ©Wireimage MUSIC May 22, 2013

A$AP Rocky, Brixton Academy, London

The Harlem rapper’s show was a messy, poorly focused affair

Roberto Bolle and Julie Kent THEATRE & DANCE May 22, 2013

A Month in the Country, Met Opera, New York

Turgenev’s play, condensed by Ashton, was thrillingly danced

Joyce DiDonato in 'La donna del lago' ©Bill Cooper MUSIC May 22, 2013

La donna del lago, Royal Opera House, London

John Fulljames’ production does not set the pulse racing

Olivia Onyehara as Tanzi THEATRE & DANCE May 22, 2013

Tanzi Libre, Southwark Playhouse, London

Claire Luckham’s play tells its story through a wrestling match

Cinema

Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan in 'The Great Gatsby' ©Warner Bros

Nigel Andrews on the latest films: The Great Gatsby, Beware of Mr Baker and The Liability

The Art Market

Paul McCarthy's giant 'Balloon Dog' (2013), which sold for $950,000 at Frieze New York

The Art Market: DiCaprio raises the roof for tigers; Newman’s chequered past; SplitArt kaput

'Like Father, Like Son' Nigel Andrews from FILM & TELEVISION May 21, 2013

Cannes Film Festival – first report

Films about families in crisis have dominated this year’s festival

'Bródno People' (2010) by Paweł Althamer and others VISUAL ARTS May 21, 2013

Expo 1: New York, MoMA PS1, New York

Fragments of this creative explosion are scattered across the city

THEATRE & DANCE May 21, 2013

Relatively Speaking, Wyndham’s Theatre, London

Alan Ayckbourn’s breakthrough play is a tangle of cross-purposes

Laura Claycomb (centre) in Glyndebourne's ‘Ariadne auf Naxos’ ©Alastair Muir MUSIC May 20, 2013

Glyndebourne Festival, East Sussex, UK

First a knotty ‘Ariadne auf Naxos’; then a scintillating ‘Falstaff’

Phillipa Soo as Natasha ©Chad Batka THEATRE & DANCE May 20, 2013

Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, Kazino, New York

Dave Malloy’s pop opera is a rollicking take on ‘War and Peace’

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