Arts feature
Falling stars
If you want real acting in films, forget the leads – it’s in the supporting roles that you’ll find true talent, says Tanya Gold
Trock and awe
Louise Levene on the male ballet troupe that realised the ballerinas have all the best lines
All the world’s a stage
A neglected little town in Merseyside is the natural home for Shakespeare North, says Robert Gore-Langton
Keep on truckin’
Sam Kriss on why country-pop is the most modern music there is
Some like it hot
Mary Wakefield on Katia and Maurice Krafft, who loved volcanoes and each other
Resculpting the past
Rather than tearing statues down, Hew Locke believes in reworking them to highlight their place in our imperial history. Stuart Jeffries speaks to him
Knives out
Daisy Dunn on the art of surgery
Vive la gloire
The refurbishment of Paris’s galleries and museums continues apace, with money no object, finds Rupert Christiansen
Shooting star
Tanjil Rashid on the polymathic Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray, who spearheaded a new school of Indian cinema
Born again
Richard Bratby on the resurrection of wunderkind Erich Korngold’s long-neglected masterpiece
Fantastic beasts
Sam Kriss on the power of paleoart
Going public
It is high time we did justice to the treasures of the royal collection, says Jack Wakefield
Great Dane
Borgen star Sidse Babett Knudsen talks to Jasper Rees about why, after a break of ten years, the implausibly more-ish series is returning for a fourth season
Poetry in motion
Craig Raine on the challenges of translating poets’ lives and work to the screen
Old cud and fleshy frumps
Artist, actor, social justice warrior, serial killer. Laura Gascoigne on the many faces of Walter Sickert
The hecklers
Keith Burstein recalls a key moment in the battle for emancipation from the ivory tower of atonalism
‘I came, I saw, I scribbled’
Graeme Thomson talks to former Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan about his first art folio
Thrills, frills and folderols
A clever, original exhibition at the Wallace Collection has Laura Freeman twirling her way through the West End
High and mighty
Dan Hitchens on the beauty of gasholders
Lend me your ears
Don’t read James Joyce’s Ulysses, says John Phipps. Listen to it
Saint or hustler?
Laura Gascoigne dishes the dirt on Raphael
‘I had no interest in the theatre whatsoever’
Lloyd Evans talks to Keith Allen about Max Bygraves, how he fell into acting and the sensitivities of contemporary audiences
Go down, Moses
Robert Gore-Langton on the man who wrecked New York
The head in the bed
Fifty years since The Godfather’s release, Thomas W. Hodgkinson revisits the film’s most unforgettable scene
A new Arab spring?
Stuart Jeffries on Saudi Arabia’s burgeoning art scene
