Arts

Machinal was first performed in 1928 but its ninety-minute dissection of enforced marriage and America’s obsession with business and money-making is as resonant today as it has been over the last few decades. Playwright Sophie Treadwell (also a human rights journalist ahead of her time) took her main inspiration from the Ruth Snyder and Gray trial which led to the first execution of a woman by chair in New York State. But Treadwell only uses Snyder as a way in...

Banksy posted a snap of the Brexit-themed painting, which mocks the ‘Vote Leave’ motto and changes it to ‘Vote to Love’, on his Instagram account

The Nonesuch Orchestra is set to perform Stravinsky’s ballet Apollo (“Apollon musagète”) with new choreography from local dance company Ballet4life on Saturday 23rd June at 7.30pm at St Peter’s Church, Acton Green. Conductor Dan Shilladay has curated an evening of musical delights, starting with Mozart’s B-flat Divertimento, followed by Bach’s Double Violin Concerto (soloists Stephanie Waite, the leader of the Nonesuch Orchestra, and her husband Enrico Alvares) and concluding with Apollo. Traditionally Stravinsky’s Apollo is performed with the 1928 choreography...

If you've ever wondered what it would be like to step into your favourite paintings,  Paris' new totally immersive art experience at Atelier des Lumières may be just the ticket. The City's first digital art centre has blown up monumental depictions of your favourite art works, digitally cast onto floors walls and ceilings. Paris' new 'Studio of Lights' is set in a renovated 19th century foundry in the 11th arrondissement, with 26-foot-high walls and an immense 21,000 square feet of open floor...

Like the characters who wear several layers of clothes even though it’s a hot summer in 1833 in Baile Beag, an Irish speaking community in Donegal about to have a new civilisation and language imposed on them by the English, director Ian Rickson’s production of Brian Friel’s Translations (1980) is shot through with multiple meanings, some of which seem untranslatable into words- apt as Friel’s part inspiration for the play was George Steiner’s After Babel, a reflection on the science...

The Bust of Peace was kept at Stackpole Court, in Pembrokeshire, Wales, but its significance was eventually forgotten

But the the winner of the Society of International Nature and Wildlife Photographers' Joys of Nature contest was a lovely picture of a pair of harvest mice.

The large hole in the ground filled with rubbish and surrounded by scaffolding has seemingly been abandoned

El Martinete, near Marbella, Spain, was previously owned by Spanish Flamenco dancer, Antonio El Bailarín, who was a close friend of the famous artist.