The performance artist shocked 1980s London with his surreal outfits, outlandish lifestyle and collaborations with Lucian Freud, dancer Michael Clark and others. As a major exhibition opens …
The actor discusses the stage adaptation of his memoir Walking With Ghosts, playing Samuel Beckett in a new film " and making peace with being an exile There is a short video on YouTube of G…
The actor reveals deep-rooted passions as he talks about his role in Cyprus Avenue, what he learned from Samuel Beckett, Brexit and the TroublesThere is a poem by Tom Paulin called An Ulster…
Jez Butterworth's hit play about the 'disappeared' of the Troubles fails to capture the complexities of that period of history. Then there's the cliches…Early in the summer of 1981, when t…
From his 80s ballet-punk aesthetic to the heroin and despair of the 90s, Michael Clark always danced to his own tune. Now 54, here he talks about the effects of ageing, his mum and the inspi…
His Irish plays and punk spirit made him the most talked-about dramatist of his generation. As his new play, Hangmen, opens in London, Martin McDonagh talks about his roots, maturity and his…
The US artist's long overdue retrospective at Baltic in Gateshead makes viewers question everything they see with its interrogations of race, identity and memoryWhen she was 12, Lorna Simpso…
British culture was once open to 'messy kids' from secondary moderns. But if you want to make it in 21st century Britain, you'd best have a cut-glass accent and public school pedigreeLast we…
The wine, the women, the song… The great Harry Dean Stanton talks to Sean O'Hagan about jogging with Dylan, Rebecca de Mornay leaving him for Tom Cruise and why Paris, Texas is his greates…
London-based duo Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin praised for their work War Primer 2, which uses montage to comment on photography's role in the 'war on terror'The London-based artists Ad…