★★★★ TRACEY EMIN: A SECOND LIFE @tate.bsky.social Modern - Self-obsession put to good use in a show that charts the rise and rise of an artist - Sarah Kent characteristically incisive on an artist whose career she has followed from its beginning www.theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/...
03.03.2026 19:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
★★★★ #Mahler2 #BBCSSO #DonaldRunnicles #UsherHall Edinburgh - Grand gestures and overarching arguments as a great conductor returns in triumph to crown an orchestra’s anniversary celebrations - review by Simon Thompson www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
03.03.2026 10:31 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
'Puns, one-liners, slow-burners, delayed payoffs, visual and physical gags, he’s got them all, lots of them, and they’re all rather good' ★★★★ #MarkSimmons - The maestro of the one-liner gives a gag-heavy hour on his #JesttoImpress tour - review by Veronica Lee www.theartsdesk.com/comedy/mark-...
03.03.2026 10:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
theartsdesk Q&A: musician Dave Stewart on the Eurythmics and the German avant-garde, Roy Orbison, and his new company, Rare Entity in an interview with @hallibee1.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/th...
02.03.2026 09:47 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
★★★ Squeeze dip into their distant past for a concept set about fictional nightclub 'Trixies' - with mixed results finds Thomas H Green www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/sq...
02.03.2026 09:57 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
★★★★ How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, Netflix - something's not right in Knockdara, writes Adam Sweeting www.theartsdesk.com/tv/how-get-h...
02.03.2026 10:19 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
I loved watching and reviewing this disc. Pioneering investigative journalist Daniel Farson investigates witches, UFOs, cats, striptease, the Stock Exchange and a whole load more: www.theartsdesk.com/tv/blu-ray-d... @vicpratt.bsky.social #bfi #danielfarson #associatedrediffusion
03.03.2026 05:54 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
'#DanielFarson, looking for people with unconventional opinions' ★★★★ DANIEL FARSON'S GUIDE TO BRITAIN Vol 1 - A pioneering TV journalist's guide to late 1950s London, and beyond - 'This set is a blast', says @grahamrickson.bsky.social - now on #BFI Blu-ray theartsdesk.com/tv/blu-ray-d...
02.03.2026 19:57 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Despite its title, @cherryredrecords.bsky.social's Steppin' Out - The Roots Of Garage Rock 1963-1965 is a primer in US pop’s varied pre-psychedelic musical landscape. I’ve looked at it today for @theartsdesk.bsky.social: www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/mu...
01.03.2026 07:44 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
★★★★ #PiotrAnderszewski @wigmore-hall.org.uk - A master pianist dives deep into the farewell moods of #Brahms and #Beethoven - @boydtonkin.bsky.social on a programme of long, and strong, goodbyes www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
28.02.2026 18:41 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
'A fabulous collection which pulls you in a myriad of emotional directions' ★★★★ #SarahJaneMorris and #TonyRémy return with more essential lodestars in THE SISTERHOOD 2 - Peter Quinn relishes a love letter to the women who changed music forever theartsdesk.com/new-music/mo...
28.02.2026 10:51 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
★★★★ #NicholasMcCarthy #CleliaCafiero #BBCNationalOrchestraofWales #HoddinottHall - Echoes loud and clear in #Ravel and #Chausson, with big sounds needing more space but no better playing - review by Stephen Walsh www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
28.02.2026 10:01 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
#TomMeighan @theengineshed.bsky.social Lincoln - The ex @kasabianhq.bsky.social frontman's acoustic set is a lively night out - Thomas H Green enjoys an evening of whole-hearted sing-alongs (plus great images by #PaulMassey) www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/to...
27.02.2026 19:51 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
BRUNO CARVALHO @brunocarvalho.bsky.social THE INVENTION OF THE FUTURE - A Harvard professor presents a sprawling urban history - @jonturney.bsky.social is intrigued, and impressed by this tale of new cities @princetonupress.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/books/bruno-...
27.02.2026 19:37 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
#Gorillaz mature and meditate on THE MOUNTAIN, as world music meets every other genre in their new project, says Ibi Keita www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/go...
27.02.2026 11:12 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
★★★★ How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, Netflix - something's not right in Knockdara, writes Adam Sweeting www.theartsdesk.com/tv/how-get-h...
02.03.2026 10:19 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
★★★ Squeeze dip into their distant past for a concept set about fictional nightclub 'Trixies' - with mixed results finds Thomas H Green www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/sq...
02.03.2026 09:57 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
theartsdesk Q&A: musician Dave Stewart on the Eurythmics and the German avant-garde, Roy Orbison, and his new company, Rare Entity in an interview with @hallibee1.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/th...
02.03.2026 09:47 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
★★★★ #PiotrAnderszewski @wigmore-hall.org.uk - A master pianist dives deep into the farewell moods of #Brahms and #Beethoven - @boydtonkin.bsky.social on a programme of long, and strong, goodbyes www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
28.02.2026 18:41 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
'A fabulous collection which pulls you in a myriad of emotional directions' ★★★★ #SarahJaneMorris and #TonyRémy return with more essential lodestars in THE SISTERHOOD 2 - Peter Quinn relishes a love letter to the women who changed music forever theartsdesk.com/new-music/mo...
28.02.2026 10:51 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
★★★★ #NicholasMcCarthy #CleliaCafiero #BBCNationalOrchestraofWales #HoddinottHall - Echoes loud and clear in #Ravel and #Chausson, with big sounds needing more space but no better playing - review by Stephen Walsh www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
28.02.2026 10:01 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
★★★★ Do look back: harpist #CatrinFinch's NOTES TO SELF - @timcumming.bsky.social enters the conversation of these interior musical meditations on life and art www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/do...
27.02.2026 11:03 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
★★★★ #TheEnglishConcert #KristianBezuidenhout #LondonHandelFestival - A delightful imaginary duel between greats #Handel and #Bach, presented with style, sophistication and philosophical elegance - review @halibee.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
27.02.2026 10:58 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
★★★★★ THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE - A vivid and bustling study of 18th century religious purists, #MonaFastvold’s biopic is a remarkable extravaganza of music, movement and image, says James Saynor www.theartsdesk.com/film/testame...
26.02.2026 21:38 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
SIRAT - Beaten off the track: #OliverLaxe tells a fatalistic tale of clubbers in peril and an awful lot of sand, says James Saynor theartsdesk.com/film/sirat-r...
26.02.2026 19:44 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
★★★★★ A gleeful celebration of sight: Rose Wylie, Royal Academy is a sensory experience whose visceral impact creates a gleeful sense of child-like wonder, writes Sarah Kent www.theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/...
26.02.2026 09:49 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
★★ THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY #TheatreRoyalHaymarket - Popular novel-turned-musical pushes the bounds of credibility to breaking point and beyond, says Matt Wolf www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/unli...
25.02.2026 15:25 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
★★★★ #PekkaKuusisto #SamAmidon @samamidon.bsky.social #NorwegianChamberOrchestra players @kingsplacelondon.bsky.social - Grief is the thing with strings, as styles harmonise in music of memory and mourning - review @boydtonkin.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
25.02.2026 15:10 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
BIRD GROVE #HampsteadTheatre - #AlexiKayeCampbell’s new play tells the story of #GeorgeEliot’s early struggle for independence, with #ElizabethDulau and #OwenTeale
delivering detailed and convincing performances, says @sierz.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/bird...
★★★★★ THE SECRET AGENT - The military dictatorship unleashed a carnival of killing and corruption, but #KleberMendonçaFilho's sprawling genre-buster shows there was hope, too - Graham Fuller follows the travails of a marked man during #Brazil's dark ages www.theartsdesk.com/film/secret-...
25.02.2026 12:44 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0