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Paul Cézanne’s watercolour ‘Three Pears’ (1888-90)

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Mar 14, 2014 VISUAL ARTS

All roads lead back to Cézanne

From unmissable watercolours to the turbulence of Van Gogh, the Pearlman Collection – now in Europe for the first time – offers a fresh vision of modern painting

Culture columns

Economical with the truth

Australain Dollar coins surrond a US Dollar bill.

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‘There’s a reason a Warhol dollar-sign painting is valued more than most renaissance altarpieces’

The joy of archaeolatreia

‘Forget the ruins of the past; today’s ruinous visions are of the future’

Mar 14, 2014 MUSIC

Electronica’s quiet hero

The first London retrospective celebrates the influential French electronic composer

©Claus Cordes

Mar 14, 2014 VISUAL ARTS

Manners from heaven

A rich exhibition shows how two Florentine masters pursued radically different paths

Mar 14, 2014 THEATRE & DANCE

Twelfth Night, Everyman, Liverpool

A warm, buoyant staging of Shakespeare’s comedy and an apt choice for the reopening of the Everyman Theatre

One of two untitled 1975 collaborations in Rainer and Roth's series of 'Misch und Trennkunst' (mixed and separate) works

Mar 14, 2014 VISUAL ARTS

Two for the price of one?

Partnerships aren’t, for most artists, a recipe for making masterpieces but rather a way of breaking habits – and new ground

CD and DVD Reviews

The name of Australia’s pint-sized pop princess is gaining currency as slang for the Australia-New Zealand dollar rate

New albums from Kylie Minogue and George Michael, plus the latest classical, jazz, world and DVDs

The Art Market

Detail from soft sculpture by Aiko Hachisuka

The annual report everyone cares about; the Armory on the up and up; and Asian art in New York

Mar 14, 2014 THEATRE & DANCE

Headlong rush

The theatre company’s new artistic director says that he’s up for the challenge of building on its past successes

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Mar 14, 2014 MUSIC

In the footsteps of the great

Beethoven’s superhuman image left young composers with nowhere to go

Mar 13, 2014 Nigel Andrews from FILM & TELEVISION

Under the Skin – film review

Scarlett Johansson has a hankering for male flesh

'Suzanne', directed by Katell Quillévéré

Mar 13, 2014 Nigel Andrews from FILM & TELEVISION

Suzanne – film review

Katell Quillévéré’s film is a fill-in-the-gaps tale of loneliness

07134004 In an exciting return to the great car culture films of the 1960s and ’70s that tap into what makes the American myth of the open road so enticing, “Need for Speed” chronicles a near-impossible cross-country race against time — one that begins as a mission for revenge, but proves to be one of redemption.
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Mar 13, 2014 Nigel Andrews from FILM & TELEVISION

Need for Speed – film review

Aaron Paul is braking bad in this racing romp

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Highlights

From unmissable watercolours to the turbulence of Van Gogh, the Pearlman Collection – now in Europe for the first time – offers a fresh vision of modern painting

Culture columns

The first London retrospective celebrates the influential French electronic composer

A rich exhibition shows how two Florentine masters pursued radically different paths

A warm, buoyant staging of Shakespeare’s comedy and an apt choice for the reopening of the Everyman Theatre

Partnerships aren’t, for most artists, a recipe for making masterpieces but rather a way of breaking habits – and new ground

The theatre company’s new artistic director says that he’s up for the challenge of building on its past successes

Beethoven’s superhuman image left young composers with nowhere to go

Scarlett Johansson has a hankering for male flesh

Katell Quillévéré’s film is a fill-in-the-gaps tale of loneliness

Aaron Paul is braking bad in this racing romp

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