CRITICS ' CHOICE
Your support helps us to tell the story
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.
At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.
The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.
Your support makes all the difference.Art
CHARLOTTE MULLINS
Jackson Pollock
Tate, SW1 (0171 887 8000) to 6 June
Definitive retrospective of Jack the Dripper's abstract expressionist canvases.
See review, page 7.
Richard Deacon
Liverpool Tate (0151 709 3223) to 16 May First UK view for new sculptures, photographs and drawings.
Portraits by Ingres
National Gallery, WC2 (0171 839 3321) to 25 Apr Impeccable paintings by the 19th-century master of line.
Monet in the 20th Century RA, W1 (0171 413 1717) to 18 Apr Water lilies and reflections occupied Monet for the last 30 years of his life.
.Francis Bacon
Tate, SW1 (0171 887 8000) to 2 May The drawings he didn't want you to see.
Opening this week
Rogier van der Weyden
National Gallery, WC2 (0171 839 3321) Thurs to 4 July Sixth centenary of the birth of this Dutch artist.
Jacques Lipchitz
Leeds Henry Moore Institute (0113 246 9469) Thurs to 29 Apr Retrospective of work by the modernist sculptor.
Film
ANTONIA QUIRKE
Festen (Celebration) (15)
Danish director Thomas Vinterberg's brilliant story of a family party disintegrating into drama, retribution and grief.
The Thin Red Line (15)
Terrence Malick returns with a strange, epic drama set in Guadalcanal during the Second World War.
This Year's Love (18)
Kathy Burke stars as one of a group of thirtysomethings trying to have relationships with each other.
Affliction (15)
Nick Nolte stars in Paul Schrader's American tragedy about small-town machismo and an accidental death.
Opening on Friday
A Night at the Roxbury (15)
Seventies disco comedy about two clumsy brothers.
Waking Ned (PG)
A small Irish town gets a taste of lottery fever.
Arlington Road (15)
What to do if a terrorist lives across the street.
Theatre
ROBERT BUTLER
Talk of the City
Young Vic, SE1 (0171 928 6363) to 27 Mar Stephen Poliakoff's depiction of Broadcasting House in the late 1930s.
Copenhagen
Duchess, WC2 (0171 494 5075) to Aug
Michael Frayn's play turns nuclear physics during the Second World War into a fascinating detective story.
Oklahoma!
Lyceum, WC2 (0870 606 3446) to June Trevor Nunn's answer to Guys and Dolls.
Opening this week
Good
Donmar, WC2 (0171 369 1732) previews Thurs, opens 23 March, to 22nd May
Charles Dance as a liberal German professor in the 1930s who ends up a Nazi.
Opera
MICHAEL WHITE
Opening this week
Sicilian Vespers Royal Festival Hall, SE1 (0171 960 4242) tonight Verdi's pot-pourri of love and politics.
Where the Wild Things Are/Higglety, Pigglety Pop! QEH, SE1 (0171 960 4242) Wed Oliver Knussen conducts his own Eighties double bill.
Concerts
MICHAEL WHITE
Opening this week Odyssey Royal Festival Hall, SE1 (0171 960 4242) Mon Simon Rattle conducts Nicholas Maw's landmark orchestral score.
Oldham Walton Festival Oldham & Manchester (0161 911 4072) Fri to Sun Tribute to Sir William.
Dance
JENNY GILBERT
Doug Varone & Dancers
Woking New Victoria (01483 761144) Fri & Sat Sassy contemporary dance from New York.
Opening this week
Dracula Sadler's Wells, EC1 (0171 863 8000) Wed to 27 Mar Northern Ballet Theatre revives its version of Bram Stoker's novel.
Join our commenting forum
Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies
Comments