But as bureaucratic as this all sounds, the RSC production manages intense drama; with the run in Stratfordupon-Avon described as “gripping” and “tense”, the London transfer isn’t to be missed. Quick!

Which made it all the more unsettling that watching his movies and TV shows was like peeling the top layer off a Norman Rockwell painting to find one of Francis Bacon’s writhing, inhuman faces.

If you met him in person, David Lynch came across as a Midwestern pastor, all gee-whiz and aw-shucks. He was one of the few people who seemed wholly incapable of irony and, hearing him talk, you’d ...

His first performed work, Night Dances, written while still at the Royal ... Popes and Blood on the Floor (both inspired by Francis Bacon paintings, and the latter containing an elegy for his ...

Marianne Faithfull’s work proved she was no mere muse, she was a creative force worshipped by cool musicians in every era ...

From the most anticipated literary debuts to the return of heavyweights like Stephen King and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, there's plenty to add to your TBR pile this year.

Transcendental Meditation was a key part of the the life of David Lynch, as this writer discovered when she interviewed him in 2006.

This compact yet brilliant show looks at how painters responded to the subjugation of real life in the 1960s media age, with its explosion of photos, film and mass reproduction.