The curators of the Hayward's British Art Show present their chosen artists as thinkers, seers and philosophers - but are they really going to set the world on fire?... more
Director Ian Talbot struggles to differentiate between numerous nigh-on identical scenes and the tone becomes ever more uncertain in The Invisible Man... more
Bemused Primrose Hill residents find themselves in the middle of a scene from an H G Wells novel as they awoke to the sound of cars being crushed... more
Here we go again. The very week a nude photograph of actress Brooke Shields aged 10 has been removed from a Tate Modern exhibition, on police advice, we have Anna Friel appearing naked on the West End stage... more
Now I know that the sight of Alastair Campbell is enough to put some people off their breakfast but it's quite something that his presence for a mere week at the New Statesman should unleash such a rip-roaring feud.... more
One of the enduring images of Cosmo Landesman's new memoir Starstruck: Fame, Failure, My Family and Me, is of his wife Julie Burchill, fuelled by alcohol and cocaine, bashing out copy on a typewriter. Landesman would dutifully lay out line after line of white powder until she had lift-off. "Then there would be an outburst of furious tapping," he notes. "I would look over and see her hunched over the keyboard typing with one finger just one crazy, demonic finger hopping up and down, speeding right and left across the keyboard with a frenzied life of its own." ... more
John Fowles continues to cause a stir from beyond the grave. It emerges that the man who gave us a novel with an alternative ending was leading a double life until his death... more
So now we know. The new authorised biography of VS Naipaul reveals the Nobel laureate is a monster of meanness and paranoia who enjoyed whoremongering, beating up his mistress and verbally abusing his wife... more
Despite his limited palette and deliberately banal subject matter, photographer Emil Otto Hoppé can and does manage to extract drama from the mundane, says Nina Caplan.... more
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