Welcome to the Pleasuredome! OK, maybe not, but here’s where you’ll find our arts and music pages
“They say recessions are good for creativity. With the latest general strike taking place in Athens only last Thursday and news of food queues cropping up on a regular basis, how are the arts faring in the city that gave us Sophocles and Phidias?” Olympia Zographos went along to the cutting-edge Athenian district of Ghazi to find out.
Cantonese opera is an elaborate, elegant and beautiful spectacle – as Kay and Dave found when they were treated to a performance at The Pavilions pool villa resort in Phuket.
Visit the 10th International Literature Festival in Berlin – the focus this year is on eastern Europe.
Lots of international festivals in Venice
Photography School Asia offers you a unique opportunity to study with British photojournalist Jonathan Taylor, with courses, classes and tours in Bangkok, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.
Tim Batchelor, co-curator of the major Constable exhibition at Tate Britain this summer, tells us about the artist’s “six-foot” canvases and why if you can’t visit…