Manchester International Festival secures leading artists for 2021 return
Manchester's biennale arts festival has a summer line up to champion a resurgent international arts scene, including work by Cephas Williams, Deborah Warner and Tracey Emin
ARTS
Damien Hirst takeover at Gagosian: audacious, compelling and moving once more
The Damien Hirst takeover at Gagosian Britannia Street is a welcome post-covid return to exploring the strangeness of the banal via Contemporary art, writes CulturAll Culture Editor, Frances Forbes-Carbines
BUSINESS
Learn to love art by trusting your instincts: British actor Russell Tovey teams up with Sotheby’s
A forthcoming auction at Sotheby’s curated by British actor and self-confessed 'art geek' Russell Tovey, looks at the importance of supporting new talent, of nurturing creativity and of self-confidence
POLICY
Together in electric dreams: performance and connection in the Lockdown Age
A sense of connection; a sense of occasion: Dan Harding, Head of Music Performance at the University of Kent, explores the importance of audiences at sporting and cultural events
TRAVEL
The real reasons to love Japan
The West has turned Japan into a kind of mental playground of clichés, but for the observant visitor there is so much more to see, hear and feel writes Rev Dr Thomas Plant as he examines the country's unique form or monoculture
LONG LUNCH
Can a traitor be an aesthete? The Anthony Blunt question
The Surveyor of the Queen’s pictures was also one of Britain’s greatest traitors. Eliot Wilson examines the uneasy legacy of Anthony Blunt