28 AUGUST 1971, page 20

Art

In the outback EVAN ANTHONY John Bratby turns up in the most unexpected places — that is, his paintings do. 1 am beginning to think of him as the most prolific of English......

Will Waspe's Whispers

My colleague Kenneth Hurren's hunch — about the National Theatre's Ronald Pickup being the man most likely to succeed as Hamlet in our time — may have been anticipated by the......

Mr Patrick Gibson, Chairman Of Penguin Publishing And...

and active on numerous cultural committees, seems the right sort of public-spirited arts man to succeed Lord Goodman as chairman of the Arts Council. He may well do so. But not,......

"the Spectator's Arts Round-up

CINEMA Pick of the London runners: Sunday, Bloody Sunday, a triangular affair (man, boy and girl, with, in the fashion of our day, the boy in the middle), starring Glenda......