Founder of Yorkshire Sculpture Park Peter Murray: ‘You can’t build a Northern Powerhouse if arts and culture are ignored’
When Peter Murray set up the Yorkshire Sculpture Park 38 years ago, even some of the artists weren’t sure it was a good idea.
When Peter Murray set up the Yorkshire Sculpture Park 38 years ago, even some of the artists weren’t sure it was a good idea.
In many ways it’s appropriate that in the English National Opera’s hour of financial need Mike Leigh should ride to the rescue on the wings of Gilbert and Sullivan.
A culinary life lived without wheat need not be bland, and these recipes are here to prove it
The classical music world’s equivalent of a papal election takes place this Monday, as the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra go into their secret conclave to elect a successor to their British artistic director, Sir Simon Rattle.
As import/export businesses of all sizes continue to face unprecedented pressures on their bottom line, are you doing enough to reduce your business' foreign exchange risk and save money on your international payments?
Avaes Mohammad wanted to write a play about Muslim extremism in the North of England. Actually, he wanted to write three – a trilogy, going from 9/11 to the present moment. But when he approached Rod Dixon, of the Red Ladder Theatre Company, he was persuaded to look at two different versions of extremism in modern Britain: Muslim terrorism and white, working-class fascism.
David Cameron has a choice. He is in an unusually strong position. Re-elected against expectations, and having said that he would not stand for a third term, he has the chance to set his own terms for the next two-and-a-half to five years, depending on when he chooses to step down. So what kind of legacy does he really want to leave?
This list has been under construction for so long that I have forgotten whose idea it was originally. But now, unlike the buildings on it, it is complete.
Prriyanka Bose was on holiday in Kerala when the news broke that a young woman had been gang raped on a bus in Delhi. It was 16 December 2012 and, as the first details of the horrific attack began to emerge, Bose, an award-winning film actress who'd grown up in Delhi, went into the bathroom and stared at herself in the mirror.
For most comedians, being pelted by objects while on stage would be a problem but many of the performers at a new comedy club in upstate New York won’t be offended at such treatment – because they will be a hologram.