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The Arts Desk’s team of professional critics offer unrivalled review coverage, in-depth interviews and features on popular music, classical, art, theatre, comedy, opera, comedy and dance. Dedicated art form pages, readers’ comments, What’s On and our user-friendly theatre and film recommendations Overnight reviews, int

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theartsdesk.com > new-music > despite-its-beauty-julia-holters-materia-does-not-fully-persuade-0

Despite its beauty, Julia Holter's 'Materia' does not fully persuade

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (329+ words) Refining rather than advancing, it is her follow-up album to 2024’s Something in the Room She Moves....Back in 2024, “Materia” was a track on Something in the Room She Moves....

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theartsdesk.com > film > teenage-sex-and-death-camp-miasma-review-spouting-and-spurting

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma review - spouting and spurting

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (349+ words) trans person’s journey – as was the case when people were swallowed by an online game in We’re All Going...All in all, Schoenbrun’s liminal and libidinal phantasmagoria is never going to concede that sometimes...

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theartsdesk.com > new-music > music-reissues-weekly-tarkovsky-ivans-childhood-andrei-roublev-solaris-mirror-and-stalker

Music Reissues Weekly: Tarkovsky - the ‘Ivan's Childhood,’ ‘Andrei Roublev,’ ‘Solaris,’ ‘Mirror’ and ‘Stalker’ soundtracks

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (640+ words) Ovchinnikov would go on to be a major musical figure....While Andrei Roublev moved on from Ivan's Childhood’s conventional orchestral scoring to a formulation...

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theartsdesk.com > theatre > colored-girls-who-have-considered-suicidewhen-rainbow-enuf-yard-review-spirited-revival-50-year-old

for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, The Yard review - spirited revival of a 50-year-old classic

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (136+ words) performed by its author, Ntozake Shange, and four female friends in a Californian bar in 1974, this piece moved...

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theartsdesk.com > new-music > idlewild-kelvingrove-bandstand-glasgow-review-birthday-bash-punch

Idlewild, Kelvingrove Bandstand, Glasgow review - a birthday bash with punch

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (185+ words) enough in them, and in the vibrant way old indie favourites "Rosability" and "A Modern Way Of Letting Go...

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theartsdesk.com > tv > trigger-point-series-4-itv1-review-can-so15-save-london-terrorist-holocaust

Trigger Point, Series 4, ITV1 review - can SO15 save London from a terrorist holocaust?

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (185+ words) found to have been fitted with explosive devices attached to their backs, liable to be detonated by motion...

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theartsdesk.com > classical-music > gringolts-quartet-sinfonia-london-wilson-edinburgh-international-festival-2026-review-viennese

Gringolts Quartet / Sinfonia of London, Wilson, Edinburgh International Festival 2026 review – Viennese classicism, Hungarian modernism, Hollywood gloss

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (232+ words) It’s a helpful corrective to any idea that musical development moves in only one direction....

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theartsdesk.com > new-music > music-reissues-weekly-riot-squad-i-take-it-were-through-anthology-1965-1967

Music Reissues Weekly: The Riot Squad - I Take It That We’re Through - Anthology 1965-1967

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (330+ words) Despite his solo status and on-going contractual tie with Deram – through its parent label Decca – he...

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theartsdesk.com > classical-music > bbc-proms-faust-freiburg-baroque-orchestra-rattle-review-rediscovery-joy

BBC Proms: Faust, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Rattle review – the rediscovery of joy

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (322+ words) The finale never ran into the sand (as it can): without undue hurry, Rattle sustained onward motion and...

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theartsdesk.com > new-music > dolly-parton-four-writers-reflect-musical-legend

Dolly Parton: four writers reflect on a musical legend

2+ week, 4+ hour ago   (600+ words) 9 to 5”, Dolly writing in the voice of a put-upon and abused secretary decades before the #MeToo movement...

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