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The Catholic artist Fiona Campbell Hicks introduces an exhibition of iconography, photography and poetry at Farm Street Church, which explores a journey out of the trauma of the Northern Irish Troubles through her own work and that of her late mother, Margaret Campbell Lake Galilee is the lowest-lying lake on earth, and it was there
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Read MoreMargaret Attwood’s scary story of existence under a pernicious Christian fundamentalist regime, The Handmaid’s Tale, made grim reading as a novel, was unbearable to watch as a TV series, and wins few converts to theocracy in the operatic adaptation by Danish composer Poul Ruders which has just had a new staging at English National Opera. Nearly three
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Read Moreby bcadmin | May 27, 2022 | Arts, Features, June 2022, Magazine, News, Oberammergau, Travel & Pilgrimage | 0 |
I don’t recall too many conversations in my life beginning with the words: “When I was on the cross last night…”. But there was one the other week in Oberammergau, as the entire Bavarian village geared up for the opening of this year’s Passion Play. It was nigh impossible to walk into a bar or
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Read MoreCovent Garden’s powerful production of “Peter Grimes” pulls no punches, writes Michael White The seaside town of Aldeburgh, in Suffolk, has a little Catholic church with a delightful garden that gets overlooked by visitors. Though many of them come as pilgrims, they are not there for religion. Aldeburgh’s pilgrims come in search of the composer
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Read MoreNick Ripatrazone finds the latest series about the artist perfectly depicts the startling paradoxes that guided his life and work The final episode of The Andy Warhol Diaries, a new six-part documentary series on Netflix about the pop artist’s life and work, examines how the HIV/Aids epidemic roiled New York City in the Eighties. Bronx
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Read MoreRaphael was, as Kenneth Clark put it, “one of the civilising forces of the western imagination”. For many of us, he is best known as the painter of exquisite Madonnas, which feature on artistic Christmas cards, their very familiarity preventing us from seeing them properly. Indeed, the two bored cherubs at the base of the
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Read MoreThe 16 martyrs who were the inspiration for Poulenc’s opera Les Dialogues des Carmélites are on the path to sainthood
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Read MoreFilms on religious subjects can help us understand old stories in new ways, says film historian Matthew Page
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Read MoreLucien de Guise looks at the fifth ‘c’ that’s missing from museum jewellery exhibitions
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 26, 2021 | Arts, Column, James MacMillan, January 2022, Magazine, Music, News | 0 |
Michael White reports on the premiere of James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio and the annual Britten festival in Suffolk
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 26, 2021 | Arts, Four Quartets, January 2022, Magazine, News, Ralph Fiennes, TS Eliot | 0 |
Melissa Brady-Dant is mesmerised by Ralph Fiennes’ innovative adaptation of TS Eliot’s ‘Four Quartets’
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Read MoreLucien de Guise reviews Peru: a journey in time at the British Museum
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