The 2024 museum attendance figures, out today, make for sober reading. It’s time for the government to stop bailing out failure | ✍️ Richard Morrison thetimes.com/culture/art/ar…

Thanks to Richard Morrison’s lovely review in The Times and The Sunday Times, I chose to watch this week’s Wigmore Hall concert of Baroque music featuring oboe and soprano online. Very glad I did. GORGEOUS singing by Lucy Crowe and playing by Olivier Stankiewicz, with an ace ensemble. Two hours of joy!

LPO/Gardner review — Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, with added visuals ★★★★☆ This performance would have been thrilling enough without the video images | ✍️ Richard Morrison Click below for the full article 👇 thetimes.com/culture/classi…

These are the five best museums in the UK — have you visited them? thetimes.com/article/74600d…

Britten Sinfonia review — a spectacular farewell to Nicholas Daniel thetimes.com/article/2c5b24…

Die Walküre review — brilliantly imagined Wagner (with extra zombies) thetimes.com/article/9e2827…

Indhu Rubasingham, the first woman and person of colour to run the National Theatre, is on a global mission. She talks ticket prices, Etonians and why her dad would be proud | ✍️ Richard Morrison Click below for the full article 👇 thetimes.com/culture/theatr…

LSO/Dudamel review — an inspired conductor finds his mojo again thetimes.com/article/242d8a…

LSO/Dudamel review — an inspired conductor finds his mojo again thetimes.com/article/242d8a…

So a budget cut for the DCMS in Rachel’s spending review, and the American tech giants given a free pass to ignore UK copyright laws so their AI bots can steal the output of our creative industries as they like. Lucky the Labour Gov is so supportive of British culture, isn’t it?

Talking with Brendel, Horowitz and a few other piano virtuosos thetimes.com/article/f237ae…

This is splendid. Made the day. 👏👏👏

Is the arts world bored of supporting Ukraine? That’s how it now seems thetimes.com/article/1d9e92…

My column on the historic Barbara Hepworth sculpture being saved by crowdfunding Art Fund thetimes.com/article/db3b1b…

Interview with Richard Morrison for Times Culture ahead of the First Night of the BBC Proms this Friday July 18th. Join us live on BBC Two & BBC Radio 3 #BBCProms thetimes.com/culture/classi…

⁦ An eye opener of an article. I hope that note is taken… English Heritage⁩ and the ⁦National Trust⁩ are on the brink — this is why by ⁦Richard Morrison⁩ via ⁦The Times and The Sunday Times⁩ thetimes.com/article/187c7c…

The Times app consistently buries pieces by the great ⁦Richard Morrison below the latest celebrity or TV nonsense,yet he is a stellar writer on culture. His latest, fabulous piece⁩ English Heritage and the National Trust are on the brink — this is why thetimes.com/article/187c7c…

Before I arrived home after Lucia di Lammermoor Opera Holland Park, Richard Morrison's review of Prom 1 was already published! thetimes.com/culture/classi… Times Culture