18 SEPTEMBER 1982, page 26

Arts

All-American horror Peter Ackroyd Poltergeist ('X', selected cinemas) p oltergeist has been inspired, at least in part, by Stephen Spielberg, customarily referred to as the 'boy......

Art

Suisside John McEwen T he retrospective of Jean Tinguely's motorised sculpture comes to the Tate Gallery (till 28 November) from the Musee d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva, where......

Op E Ra Poor Handel Rodney Milnes T He Punishment Meted...

Handel for the crime of being a great opera com- poser knows no end. After two centuries of total neglect, his works are at last being per- formed regularly by major companies......