A rendering for James Turrell’s 2013 installation ‘Aten Reign’ ©James Turrell VISUAL ARTS May 24, 2013

Interview: James Turrell

The American artist who has made light his medium talks to Jonathan Griffin as he prepares for this summer’s triumvirate of retrospectives

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'Blue is the Warmest Colour' by Abdellatif Kechiche Nigel Andrews from FILM & TELEVISION May 24, 2013

Cannes communiqué

The latest from the film festival – and our critic’s Palme D’Or favourite

‘Lionboy’, the new stage production from Complicite ©Sarah Ainslie THEATRE & DANCE May 24, 2013

It’s all in the imagination

Founders Annabel Arden and Simon McBurney talk about what is next for Complicite’s visionary theatre as it marks 30 years

Anthony Caro ©Mike Bruce VISUAL ARTS May 24, 2013

Man of steel

Ahead of his Venetian retrospective, Anthony Caro tells Rachel Spence about abstraction, sculpting metal and why he is now embracing Perspex

Josef Koudelka’s ‘Trittico’ Peter Aspden from VISUAL ARTS May 24, 2013

See and be seen

The Vatican hopes to reunite art and faith with its debut at the Biennale

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Antonia Quirke reviews the latest releases: Epic, The Hangover Part III, The Big Wedding and more

The Art Market

Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Sex Obsession, Phallic Bowl’, (1965), at Art Basel Hong Kong

Basel brand hits HK; one fair in, one fair out in California; massive deflation for sculpture

John Zorn ©Patrick Essex MUSIC May 24, 2013

Screams, vamps and a malevolent hiss

An epic performance by John Zorn was only one of the highlights at Moers this year

Atticus Finch (Robert Sean Leonard) with daughter Scout ©Alastair Muir THEATRE & DANCE May 24, 2013

To Kill a Mockingbird, Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park, London

Robert Sean Leonard is in the kind of role that has been his strong suit since youth: quiet but resolute on the side of right

El Anatsui with ‘Tsiatsia – Searching for Connection’ at the Royal Academy ©James Royall VISUAL ARTS May 24, 2013

Full metal façade

Ghanaian artist El Anatsui has given the venerable Royal Academy a summer makeover

MUSIC May 24, 2013

LSO/Gergiev, Barbican, London

At 60, Valery Gergiev shows no sign of exchanging the fast lane for the slow

'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

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