Travel & Culture
- The Telegraph
Three 'lost' Lowry sketches discovered hidden in cupboard for decades
Lost L. S. Lowry drawings hidden in an art teacher’s folder for 60 years have been rediscovered.
- The Telegraph
The best classical CDs of August and September 2022
This wonderful album takes us back to a time before that stiff, formal artefact we call “classical music” had come into being, when composers rubbed shoulders with actors and folk singers in disreputable playhouses and taverns, and a folk song could migrate from the street to the theatre and even a nobleman’s grand house.
- The Telegraph
‘We can’t turn off the lights or the projector’: inside UK culture’s energy crisis
The lights are going out all over Europe, to paraphrase Sir Edward Grey’s World War I lament. In Berlin, the Victory Column and the Berlin Cathedral remain unlit at night. In Athens, the Greek parliament is flicking the switch at dusk, and in Paris – the very city of light itself – the Eiffel Tower’s glow is now dimmed when the last visitor leaves.
- Evening Standard
Do I need travel insurance for Europe?
If you’re planning a trip overseas, travel insurance is a must — no matter how near or far your destination. A good travel insurance policy will offer peace of mind that, should you need medical treatment during your holiday, lose your baggage, or have to cancel altogether, you’ll be covered financially. Is travel insurance necessary for European destinations?
- HuffPost UK
Strictly Come Dancing Unveils Songs And Dances For This Year's Movie Week Special
Viewers can look forward to performances inspired by Grease, The Lion King, Dirty Dancing and even The Full Monty.
- Evening Standard
Half-term holidays: Where to go for some (last-minute) sun in October, from Crete to Naples
Can the same break keep both parents and children happy? Juliana Piskorz has the chicest spots with water parks aplenty
The Guardian‘She paints with the brush in her ass’: the artists sharing their worst savagings
In the book Bad Reviews, 150 artists have revisited their most brutal critiques – from an ‘unforgiveable’ Carolee Schneemann sculpture to the critic who suggested the artist should be jailed
- The Telegraph
On one of my first solo trips, a waiter thought I was a prostitute
The end of a 25-year relationship is of course painful, but if it wasn’t for my divorce I might never have embarked on the life-affirming adventure that I did.
- The Telegraph
Then and now: The retro holiday destinations that went from naff to chic
Cutting serenely into the birdsong at Vila Monte is the discreet tinkle of water from the pool. White umbrellas and billowing muslin drapes provide shade in the artfully-kept grounds and beyond the low-rise slouch of the hotel there’s nothing but waves of scrub, undulating lazily towards the sea.
- The Guardian
Tell us about an autumn half-term trip: you could win a holiday voucher
Half term is approaching and many of us will be on the lookout for interesting family activities and days out – the best tip wins £200 towards a Sawday’s stay
- Evening Standard
Chic cottages to escape to this winter
Find your perfect winter bolthole to escape to with this ultimate guide to cosy retreats.
- Evening Standard
German tourist shot dead during dream holiday in South Africa when car ambushed
A German tourist was shot dead in cold blood when his car was ambushed by an armed gang on the first day of a dream holiday with friends in South Africa. The victim was in the people carrier with a woman believed to be his wife and another German couple and were just 25 miles from the Kruger National Park. As they drove through a township area of a farming village at White River in Mpumalanga Province a VW Caddy pulled in front of their Hyundai Staria.
- The Guardian
‘He captured the flux of sensation itself’: Bridget Riley, Luc Tuymans and other painters on Cézanne’s genius
As Tate Modern opens its first major Cézanne show in 25 years, artists discuss how he has influenced their own work
- The Telegraph
Welcome to a billion-dollar art sale that will go down in history
If you thought Paris had taken centre stage in the European art market, think again. During Frieze Week (October 12–16), London will host over £1 billion of modern and contemporary art for sale. The auctions are led by a £30 million-plus triptych of Henrietta Moraes by Francis Bacon, and followed by a torrent of post-Damien Hirst-era stars – while Hirst himself will burn nearly 5,000 paintings to conclude his physical/NFT hybrid project, The Currency.
- The Telegraph
The national park that reversed the destruction of civil war
“You just missed the painted dogs,” said our guide, Richard Lusinga, as we signed the campsite’s indemnity forms and checked into our respective “rooms” – a collection of 7ft-high canvas A-frames, complete with mosquito nets, USB power banks, two single beds and wardrobes for hanging khakis – not forgetting the flushing loos and bucket showers. “A few hours ago about half a dozen wandered through camp!”
- Evening Standard
Heathrow to lift 100,000 a day passenger cap
Heathrow Airport will lift the passenger cap on travellers leaving the UK through their terminals after a summer of mass cancellations and travel chaos for holidaymakers. In July, the airport imposed a cap of 100,000 passengers departing their terminals a day due to staff shortages. The cap was due to expire on September 11 but was extended with The Wall Street Journal reporting that aviation industry officials have now been told it will end later this month.
- The Guardian
Rail route of the month: on the slow line through forests and meadows in the Swiss Jura
Our slow-travel expert discovers a dash of revolutionary spirit and a head for heights on the Jura’s little red train
- Evening Standard
Leighton House Museum reopens in Kensington after £8m refurbishment - and it’s an antidote to our times
The museum known for its stunning Arab Hall has been refreshed with new spaces (and, yes, a cafe) in a way that breathes in new life
- The Telegraph
Antonio Pappano: ‘I happily embrace diversity – just don’t blame us for having been bad people’
Antonio Pappano, the Royal Opera’s music director for the past 20 years, is looking back, the day after another big first night in Covent Garden, at the myriad challenges of the past two decades. “I think in my first years, the challenge was to consolidate my relationship with the orchestra. It took time to follow someone who was so beloved as Bernard [Haitink] because I am a very different musician.”
- The Guardian
Cost of Living review – Pulitzer prize winner lands on Broadway with a splash
Martyna Majok’s sensitive drama about four characters on the margins is empathetically acted and unusually compassionate
- The Guardian
Guardian and Observer photographer Eamonn McCabe dies aged 74
Tributes paid to one of the most celebrated newspaper photographers and picture editors of his generation
- The Telegraph
The best après-ski bars in Les Deux Alpes
Les Deux Alpes is renowned for having one of the most vibrant après scenes of any resort in France. After a spot of afternoon partying, there are some 30 bars in town to choose from and, if you’re in the dance-until-dawn camp, you won’t be disappointed.
- Evening Standard
The best bars in Brixton, from Hacha to ABV
Whether it’s for a first date or a big night out, here’s where to drink and be drunk in SW9
- The Guardian
Cézanne review – gags, mountains and murder in a dizzying, devastating show
For a long time, the French artist was the ultimate icon of seriousness. But these beautiful, touching works reveal the sly playful humour at the heart of his genius
- Evening Standard
Negroni Week 2022: London’s best Negronis
There’s an art to getting this deceptively simple mix just as it should be
- Evening Standard
Where to drink mezcal in London, from KOL Mezcaleria to Side Hustle at the NoMad
The capital’s gone mezcal mad. Here’s how to join in on the fun, says Tyler Zielinski