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Alex ColvilleAlex Colville | Weekend

The Doctor review – alternately hilarious and harrowing

Alex ColvilleAlex Colville | Weekend

For Arthur Miller, there were two types of theatre, which he labelled as “Majority” and “Other”. For the Majority, theatre was a form of entertainment,

Lost Classic: The Encantadas, by Herman Melville

Alex ColvilleAlex Colville | Weekend

The few tales Herman Melville told of the land never lose the whiff of brine. Indeed, the author of Moby-Dick was moulded by the sea. It became

Dead Poets Live: Poetry should be read aloud

Alex ColvilleAlex Colville | Weekend

Part of poetry’s magic lies in it being a time capsule, with simple lines on a page, “a fragile chariot” according to Emily Dickinson, scudding the

Europe at the Donmar – the best play about Brexit is from 1994

Alex ColvilleAlex Colville | Weekend

London theatre is currently working out how best to portray Trump and Brexit. The approach varies. Some productions are top-down, the action a riff on

How to be modern – Lee Krasner at the Barbican

Alex ColvilleAlex Colville | Art

In 1974, Lee Krasner, an outstanding force in abstract expressionism, but generally known as “Mrs Jackson Pollock”, began tearing up a folio of her old

Lost Classic: My Father and Myself, by J.R. Ackerley

Alex ColvilleAlex Colville | Weekend

You may be forgiven if JR Ackerley doesn’t ring many bells. He was literary editor of The Listener, the great magazine of the early days

Can robots create great art?

Alex ColvilleAlex Colville | Art

If you believe in first impressions, the Barbican’s AI: More Than Human is disappointing. Start with MakrShakr, the robot bartender showstopper. Two robot arms programmed

The Queen at rest

Alex ColvilleAlex Colville | Weekend

The Queen sat in the dark staring at an ultra-violet crucifix, the air awash with the incense of a Soho corner-shop. It was 2004, and

Whatever happened to Scandinavian art?

Alex ColvilleAlex Colville | Art

Scandinavia is internationally renowned for its literary heritage. Ibsen and Strindberg are well-known to the popular imagination, as are Kierkegaard and Knausgaard, the Nordic myths

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