17 OCTOBER 1998, page 47

Dance

Kaleidoscope of life Alastair Macaulay C ommon sense tells you that the avant- garde artists of yesterday ought to turn into the retrograde artists of today. With Merce......

Arts

Bringing Europe to England Simon Blow on how Henry James persuaded John Singer Sargent to go to London J ohn Singer Sargent must have con- tributed to Henry James's imagination.......