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BBC Proms 2022 preview - big is beautiful again Thursday, 14 July 2022 Read more...	Extract: My Pen is the Wing of a Bird, New Fiction by Afghan Women Monday, 21 February 2022 Read more...
Best of 2021: Film Sunday, 02 January 2022 Read more...	Best of 2021: Books Friday, 31 December 2021 Read more...
Best of 2021: TV Tuesday, 28 December 2021 Read more...	Best of 2021: Visual Arts Tuesday, 28 December 2021 Read more...
First Persons: Susan Bullock, Gerald Finley and Stephen Higgins on a 'Bluebeard's Castle' with a difference Thursday, 04 November 2021 Read more...	'Everyone who played for him always gave their very best': remembering Bernard Haitink (1929-2021) Tuesday, 02 November 2021 Read more...
Extract: The Breaks by Julietta Singh Wednesday, 06 October 2021 Read more...	'Rest now, you God': remembering bass-baritone Norman Bailey (1933-2021) Friday, 24 September 2021 Read more...
Podium odes to joy: conductors at the 2021 BBC Proms Saturday, 18 September 2021 Read more...	Summer seasons in a Covid world: five opera company movers and shakers reflect Tuesday, 14 September 2021 Read more...
Remembering Graham Vick (1953-2021) - top colleagues on one of the greatest opera directors Saturday, 21 August 2021 Read more...	Bergen International Festival, 26 May - 9 June preview - Norway meets America Wednesday, 26 May 2021 Read more...
Extract: Blackface by Ayanna Thompson Thursday, 06 May 2021 Read more...	Extract: TV by Susan Bordo Tuesday, 30 March 2021 Read more...

It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

Young eldritch junkie Nick Cave would have struggled to predict his maturity as a font of wry and sacred wisdom, or the fathomless loss he...

Maybe it was the timing, even though most of the action takes place in bright sunlight...

I thought I might never be able to say it’s been a great year for...

“O stay and hear,” sings Twelfth Night’s jester Feste in his song “O mistress mine”, “your true love’s coming,/ That can sing both high...

Looking back over the past 12 months, it struck me how it has been the shows fashioned from personal stories that have stayed with me. It wasn't...

They say cinema is dying (you never know, they may be wrong), but you can’t help noticing the stampede of movie stars towards TV and streaming....

A reissue can be an aide-mémoire, a reminder that a record which has been off the radar for a while needs revisiting, that it deserves fresh...

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Beth Gibbons’s latest album touched me more deeply than most of...