Opera is dead. And has been for quite a long time. I don’t care what anybody says about Poulenc and Prokofiev, I cannot be persuaded that any listenable music theatre has been written since Puccini. (

The gargantuan, bewildering Louvre

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LAWRENCE LEK. COURTESY THE ARTIST, MMCA, SADIE COLES ...

Between a Constable resonating with Nature and a Castiglione blaring with turbulence, a picture by Algernon Newton captured the quietude of absolute stillness