‘Like a sexy Annunciation’: Alan Hollinghurst on Fragonard’s erotic masterpiece
Not long after I’d first seen the Fragonard Room at the Frick in New York, I was trying to describe the four great canvases of The Progress…
Woodstock 1969: from free-love triumph to ‘nightmare of mud and stagnation’
Although the mainstream press were sceptical, the organisers cleverly wooed the music press. In June 1969, California’s Newport Pop Festival ended in riots, in part due to…
I wonder to this day…did her father survive? Photographer Heathcliff O’Malley on how capturing 9/11 still haunts him
“It was like a beautiful summer’s day, then I heard this enormous roar.” Heathcliff O’Malley, a veteran photographer with The Telegraph, had been sent to cover New…
One skinny-dipping scene proves it – Peter Bogdanovich was Hollywood’s unsung master
Then there is 1973’s sublime Paper Moon – another black-and-white period piece set in the rural America that Ford knew so well, but this time channeling the…
Fred Hersch, Breath by Breath, review: a masterclass in mindfulness
At 66, the self-taught Jazz pianist Fred Hersch is still full of ideas. This latest album, inspired by meditation and breathing, is a refreshingly broad concept album…
I recreated The Holiday to see if I could find love in New York
A few weeks ago I sent a message to a random woman in New York City, asking if she wanted to swap lives with me. Homes, friends,…
An expert guide to West Side Story’s New York City
Consequently, it should be no surprise that the new West Side Story (with Rachel Zegler as Maria, Ansel Elgort as Tony) was not filmed in the area….
The most ambitious travel projects that never happened
Imagine boarding a bullet train in China, zipping across eastern Siberia, and then completing a 13,000km high-speed journey two days later in Alaska via an undersea tunnel…
And Just Like That…, review: Sex and the City revival is tediously woke and needlessly bitchy
And how does the show tackle the fact that it’s been 17 years since we last saw them on TV? Extremely badly. Not so much the references…
Monday evening UK news briefing: New York announces Covid vaccine mandate for workers
It comes as travel industry bosses blasted the reintroduction of pre-departure tests for fully vaccinated travellers returning to the UK. The measure, which was announced by the…
I was told to expect masks and Covid caution in New York – but what I saw shocked me
I mostly threw my masks away at the end of the summer, and have only continued to wear one on crowded London transport. I am mildly asthmatic,…
The real villain in Alice Sebold’s tragic tale has yet to be caught
It’s a story to break the heart, but also a story with a twist that even a novelist as imaginative as Sebold might have trouble dreaming up….
New normal? Covid measures linger at the world’s great attractions
Other measures have also been introduced. To ease congestion, tour group sizes are now limited to 10 people, including a guide, and tickets must now be bought…
CNN’s Anderson Cooper on his Vanderbilt family legacy: ‘My mom always felt like an imposter’
How surreal that had it not been for the Vanderbilts, we may never have had Queen Elizabeth II on our coins, may never have heard of Diana,…
Katherine Ryan: ‘I went to the Playboy Mansion while Hugh Hefner was alive’
When I tour, I mostly do it in the UK and Europe People will say, “Have you been to Cardiff? Have you been to Aberdeen? Have you…