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Art

Undercurrents John McEwen The death of the painter Nicholas de Stael in 1955 has come to be regarded as something of a watershed in post-War art, marking as it does the......

Theatre

Bard bested Mark Amory Arms and the Man (Lyric) The Maid's Tragedy (Warehouse) Harvest (Ambassadors') Romeo and Juliet (Aldwych) Shakespeare's Rome (Mermaid) Contrary to popular......

Television

Resistible Richard In grams When I first read Brideshead Revisited I was a schoolboy and found the whole thing irresistible, especially its pictures of Oxford life; later when I......