'Rituel pour une métamorphose' ©Cosimo Micro Magliocca THEATRE & DANCE 6:02pm

Rituel pour une métamorphose, Paris

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

Culture columns

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A new exhibition at Margate’s Turner Contemporary gallery celebrates the wonder of the wandering mind
Europe casts Hollywood as the bad-guy
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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 5:57pm

A$AP Rocky, Brixton Academy, London

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

Roberto Bolle and Gemma Boyd THEATRE & DANCE 5:57pm

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 5:56pm

La donna del lago, Royal Opera House, London

John Fulljames’ production does not set the pulse racing

Olivia Onyehara as Tanzi THEATRE & DANCE 5:56pm

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

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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