As any fan of Mad Men will tell you, nostalgia literally means ‘the pain of an old wound being re-opened’. So either Kasper Holten, Covent Garden’s new artistic director, is …
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Scott Walker – Bish Bosch
This review will start, as all Scott Walker reviews must, by explaining that Scott is the greatest lyricist, vocalist, conductor, experimenter, influence, and all around genius alive today. This review …
Public art: The price of sponsorship
En Liang Khong thinks Central London’s public art scene needs to face up to the increasing gap between artistic integrity and corporate aspiration.
Soon writers will be the only artists
Delia Derbyshire didn’t use Garageband. Mario Testino doesn’t rely on Instagram. Can you really call yourself an artist if you’re reliant on machines to produce your art? TTI investigates…
Booze
We all like a drink, but at what price? If the government introduces a minimum price on alcohol, who will really lose out? One drinker shares his opinion over a bottle (or two) of red.
Is beauty subjective or objective?
Is beauty objective? Can art be reduced to an equation? If it can, could we ever create a computer capable of having good (or bad) taste? So long as beauty remains subjective, it remains in the eye of the beholder.
Bitcoin – A digital tax rebellion through technology?
For almost three thousand years, money has been minted, controlled, and regulated by the state. If we take money out of the hands of governments and central banks, will it prompt a revolution? Will global capitalism fall, or rise?


























Sunken Garden at The Barbican
Opera is a game of two halves. Bet that’s the first time you’ve heard that said in an opera review. But in the case of Sunken Garden, the “experimental” opera …