Mark Hudson
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Mark is the author of Titian, the Last Days. He writes on art and music for the Daily Telegraph, the Mail on Sunday and The Observer. His other books include the award-winning Our Grandmothers' Drums, Coming Back Brockens and The Music in my Head.
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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.
It followed some...
Elektra, Duke of York's Theatre review - Brie Larson...
We live in tragic times given over to cataclysmic events that require outsized emotions in return. That may be one reason to account for the...
Widmann, LSO, Pappano, Barbican review - razor-sharp attack...
Perhaps all great music counterpoints and comments on the times, but Antonio Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra have been searingly...
Bring Them Down review - ramming it home in the west of Irel...
“You know what they say: where there’s livestock, there’s dead stock,” says Jack (a brilliant Barry Keoghan). Never a truer word. There’s an awful...
Album: Rats on Rafts - Deep Below
Deep Below’s first track is titled “Hibernation.” “A winter breeze blows through my mind,” intones a colourless, dispirited male voice....
First Person: writer Lauren Mooney on bringing bodies togeth...
It started with a Guardian long-read. I’m ashamed to admit it since so many shows could say the same, but that was the beginning.
It was the...
The Marriage of Figaro, English National Opera review - long...
Who’s in and who’s not – on the secret, the joke, the relationship, the family, the club? That’s the fulcrum of Joe Hill-Gibbins’ ingeniously...
September 5 review - gripping real-life thriller
There’s a common understanding about journalists, especially ones at the top of their game, that they’re flying by the seat of their pants –...