Hogarth, the noisy painter
A new exhibition at the Foundling Museum takes a single painting of 18th century life as its subject
GOOD PRACTICE GUIDE Dancing into the big top
Clare Limb, head of dance development & learning for Déda, the Derby-based dance and outdoor performance development agency, on bringing dance and contemporary circus together in learning and participation
TAITMAIL 2022, a year of two Roses
It was a coincidence of fate. At the moment the survival of the oldest Elizabethan theatre against the odds and its bright future were being celebrated, the probable closure of the modern one modelled on it was announced.
AI PROFILE Cynthia Corbett and living with art
The Cynthia Corbett Gallery is in a former 1860s convent in a leafy corner of Wimbledon, not the kind of venue you would expect to be a nurturing place for artistic talent.
The Rose 30 years on: how it was saved
It was on a barmy early summer Sunday afternoon in 1989, exactly 30 years ago, when the Rose Theatre was saved. Simon Tait was there
Cabaret’s automata delight returns to London
The automota show Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, for 15 years a feature of Covent Garden, has a new show in London with the artist Paul Spooner – thanks to the inspiration it gave a teenage visitor
THE WORD Where are non-western artists in contemporary galleries?
Faiza Butt is a Pakistani artist whose work is held in private and public collections including the British Museum and the Kiran Nadar Museum, Delhi
TAITMAIL De Waal: viciousness of library cuts not just about books
The bibliophile, award-winning author and artist Edmund De Waal has made a Library of Exile, as AI reported this week, as an installation for the Venice Biennale. But what we are doing to our own libraries he says is simply vicious.
THE ART OF PHOTOJOURNALISM Image of the month
The siege of Hue, Vietnam, January-March 1968, by Terry Fincher
Edmund De Waal – My life in Venice’s Ghetto
In the week before the Venice Biennale begins Edmund De Waal is opening his most heartfelt exhibition of his life in the least likely of venues. He talked to Simon Tait
Sculptor Pye unlocks Brighton’s walled secret
One of Britain’s leading sculptors, William Pye, is helping to bring back to life a small part of Brighton’s history. Simon Tait investigated
Heaney’s home ground
Seamus Heaney would have been 80 on April, and his hometown of Bellaghy in County Derry didn’t forget. Simon Tait was there
