Category: Culture
BST 2019: Robbie Williams joins Bob Dylan and Neil Young as headliner at British Summer Time Festival
Robbie Williams has been announced as the third British Summer Time (BST) festival headliner. The former Take That singer joins previously confirmed joint headliners Bob Dylan and Neil Young. The…
A children’s writer’s macabre vision
A new biography looks at the appeal of Edward Gorey. Why have so many directors and writers been drawn to his peculiar vision, asks Cath Pound. From the Gashlycrumb Tinies…
The juvenile joke hidden in a portrait
Once you see it, you can’t unsee it: a hazy hint of adolescent humour in the background of Andrea Odoni (1527), among the stand-out paintings on display at the National…