Culture
- Erasure: World Be Gone — ‘a blend of escapism and social awareness’
- Franck: Sonata for Piano & Violin; Chausson: Concert — ‘elegant and expressive’
- Various Artists: Zaire 74: The African Artists — ‘faultless recording’
- Jane Weaver: Modern Kosmology — ‘intense and impressive’
- Schmidt: Symphony No 2 — ‘sumptuously played’
- Monteverdi: The Other Vespers — ‘skilful and imaginative’
- Venus, Pershing Square Signature Center, New York — keen provocative edge
- Doodles of genius: Renaissance master Raphael’s teen sketches
- Views from the inside — Louise Lawler retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art
- Snapshot: ‘The Erratics’ by Darren Harvey-Regan
- Boundary breakers at Photo London 2017
- Okja — a rollicking fable
- Podcast: The Animals — evolution of private correspondence
- Record $110.5m Basquiat sale caps fine art market rebound
- Protests push much-needed philanthropy away from the arts
- The Meyerowitz Stories — warm and funny
- The Square — hypocrisy dissected
- The Life of a Song: (I Cant Get No) Satisfaction
- What to watch on TV this week
- Three hatreds drove him: the English, the Jews and de Valera
- Caveat lector! Newspapers and history: a personal odyssey
- Cannes 2017 line-up the most promising in a decade
- Why immigration was key to Brexit vote
- What’s hidden in the landscape? Anthrax, bombs and cancer
- Aristotle got it wrong: We have a lot more than five senses
- Fired from the canon: Waking the Feminists, the conference
- King Arthur: Guy Richie recasts the ancient king as an East End geezer
- Snatched review: Goldie Hawn and Amy Schumer are so wasted it’s not even funny
- Noé, Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris — ambitious dance parable
- Christie’s raises $289m in its most successful auction since 2010
Monday, 21 August 2017