• Yellow Gladiolus by Violeta Sofia, hung against a deep red curtain at Winston Taylor, London

    Violeta Sofia's Handful of Spring: flowers that never bloomed together

    Violeta Sofia's floral still lifes, held up by her own hands, at Winston Taylor in London until 15 December, by appointment.

  • How to Analyze a Music Video

    To analyse a music video, watch it straight through once, then take it apart in layers: the image with the sound off, the track with the picture off, and finally the two together, noting where the edit, the camera, the performance and the lyrics line up and where they pull apart. Treat the song as…

  • What Is Immersive Theatre? How It Works, Where It Came From and How to Go

    Immersive theatre is live performance in which the audience shares the space of the story instead of watching it from a seat. You walk through rooms, streets or whole buildings, choose what to follow, and sometimes take part in a scene. The form grew out of 1960s "environmental theatre" in New York and was popularised…

  • Why Physical Media Matters for Film Collectors

    Physical media matters for film collectors because a disc you own keeps playing whatever happens to licensing deals, while a streamed or digitally "bought" film can be withdrawn by the platform. Discs also carry more picture and sound data than most streams, and they bundle restorations, commentaries and booklets that rarely survive online. UK buyers…

  • Richard Dadd's First Collectors Were the People Who Kept Him

    The Royal Academy's Richard Dadd exhibition, Beyond Bedlam, closes on 25 October. Most visitors arrive knowing two facts about Dadd: he painted fairies, and he killed his father. The show gives both t

  • Violeta Sofia's Handful of Spring: flowers that never bloomed together

    Violeta Sofia's Handful of Spring: flowers that never bloomed together

    Violeta Sofia's floral still lifes, held up by her own hands, at Winston Taylor in London until 15 December, by appointment.

  • How to Analyze a Music Video

    How to Analyze a Music Video

    To analyse a music video, watch it straight through once, then take it apart in layers: the image with the sound off, the track with the picture off, and finally the two together, noting where the edit, the camera, the performance and the lyrics line up and where they pull apart. Treat the song as…

  • What Is Immersive Theatre? How It Works, Where It Came From and How to Go

    What Is Immersive Theatre? How It Works, Where It Came From and How to Go

    Immersive theatre is live performance in which the audience shares the space of the story instead of watching it from a seat. You walk through rooms, streets or whole buildings, choose what to follow, and sometimes take part in a scene. The form grew out of 1960s "environmental theatre" in New York and was popularised…

  • Why Physical Media Matters for Film Collectors

    Why Physical Media Matters for Film Collectors

    Physical media matters for film collectors because a disc you own keeps playing whatever happens to licensing deals, while a streamed or digitally "bought" film can be withdrawn by the platform. Discs also carry more picture and sound data than most streams, and they bundle restorations, commentaries and booklets that rarely survive online. UK buyers…

  • Richard Dadd's First Collectors Were the People Who Kept Him

    Richard Dadd's First Collectors Were the People Who Kept Him

    The Royal Academy's Richard Dadd exhibition, Beyond Bedlam, closes on 25 October. Most visitors arrive knowing two facts about Dadd: he painted fairies, and he killed his father. The show gives both t

  • Nobel Prize 2026 in Literature: Anne Carson

    Nobel Prize 2026 in Literature: Anne Carson

    The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2026 has gone to the Canadian author Anne Carson, announced by the Swedish Academy on 8 October 2026 as a sole award, prize share 1/1, worth SEK 12 million. The

  • Sozyar Abdalla: "My Art Understood Me Before I Understood Myself"

    Sozyar Abdalla: "My Art Understood Me Before I Understood Myself"

    The Birmingham-based Kurdish-Iraqi artist on autism, ADHD and masking, and on Mimi, the purple cat who changes colour to fit in.

  • The Show as Spectacle: Paris Fashion Week SS27 and the Palais d'Iéna

    The Show as Spectacle: Paris Fashion Week SS27 and the Palais d'Iéna

    Paris Fashion Week closed on 6 October 2026 after nine days of womenswear spring–summer 2027: 101 houses on the official calendar of the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, with 68 runway sh

  • The Landscape Literature Taught Us to See

    The Landscape Literature Taught Us to See

    Visitors reach the Lake District already carrying a picture of it. Emma Richmond traces how Wordsworth, the guidebooks and the railway taught us where to stand and what to see.

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  • Violeta Sofia's Handful of Spring: flowers that never bloomed together

    Violeta Sofia's Handful of Spring: flowers that never bloomed together

    Violeta Sofia's floral still lifes, held up by her own hands, at Winston Taylor in London until 15 December, by appointment.

  • How to Analyze a Music Video

    How to Analyze a Music Video

    To analyse a music video, watch it straight through once, then take it apart in layers: the image with the sound off, the track with the picture off, and finally the two together, noting where the edit, the camera, the performance and the lyrics line up and where they pull apart. Treat the song as the primary text and ask what the images do to it: do they tell a…

  • What Is Immersive Theatre? How It Works, Where It Came From and How to Go

    What Is Immersive Theatre? How It Works, Where It Came From and How to Go

    Immersive theatre is live performance in which the audience shares the space of the story instead of watching it from a seat. You walk through rooms, streets or whole buildings, choose what to follow, and sometimes take part in a scene. The form grew out of 1960s "environmental theatre" in New York and was popularised by the British company Punchdrunk, whose masked production Sleep No More drew more than two…

  • Why Physical Media Matters for Film Collectors

    Why Physical Media Matters for Film Collectors

    Physical media matters for film collectors because a disc you own keeps playing whatever happens to licensing deals, while a streamed or digitally "bought" film can be withdrawn by the platform. Discs also carry more picture and sound data than most streams, and they bundle restorations, commentaries and booklets that rarely survive online. UK buyers seem to agree: disc sales fell only 4.7% in 2025, the slowest decline since 2010,…