As part of her investigations, she wanted to examine someone who was able to kill (other than in self-defence) without any signs of mental imbalance or physical damage. So when she heard about a state executioner who had thrown the switch on 19 death- row inmates – and who was willing to be interviewed – [...]

One of the more memorable images was that of Senator Orrin Hatch, a crusted conservative from Mormon, Utah, who so far departed from senatorial gravitas as to mutter, “What a jerk!”. (The cruise missiles have already persuaded him to change that judgment.)There is in all of this a genuine news story. It does matter to [...]

This film is the third in his famous “gypsy triptych”.)
Though Nora eludes him, Stephane discovers something more intangible – his natural affinity to the culture his father left behind. He puts down roots in a small village where most of the inhabitants suspect he is a chicken-thief. A grubby old lecher, Izidor (Izidor [...]

Anthony Caro, a friend of all the artists in the Cambridge show and a sort of honorary American, was inspired by the abstract expressionist sculptor David Smith: yet his intention was to become a greater artist than Smith had been.The disappointment of the Fitzwilliam exhibition is that such comparisons do not seem relevant. Poons, after [...]

You won’t see Life of Stuff at either your local Odeon or arthouse cinema because it is a poor piece of work. Since this potted synopsis is also a fair description of Trainspotting, I think he should wake up and smell the vomit. The dashing Phillipe de Nevers (Vincent Perez) swashes a glamorous buckle, the [...]

Virginia Button, curator of the Art Now series, compares them, not entirely fancifully, with Brancusi. “Maybe that was why I looked around London and suddenly saw that it was full of neon words, but no neon full stops. I went down to a sign shop, and they agreed: there aren’t any. So I set about [...]