This Cultural Life

Jennifer Lawrence's breakthrough role in the 2010 drama Winter’s Bone secured her first Ac... more

Rufus Wainwright is a singer-songwriter and composer renowned for his distinctive voice an... more

Having spent his early years in London, Mark Ronson grew up in Manhattan, began working as... more

Dame Rose Tremain is one of Britain’s most prolific and popular writers, having written 17... more

One of the most revered and prolific British classical musicians, Thomas Adès made his nam... more

Jonathan Anderson was appointed as creative director of the French fashion house Dior in M... more

Jackie Kay is one of the best known and most popular Scottish literary figures. A poet and... more

American artist Kerry James Marshall is one of the world’s most important living painters.... more

Swedish-born Alicia Vikander won global acclaim in 2015 for playing Vera Britten in Testam... more

Classical trumpeter Alison Balsom talks to John Wilson about the most significant influenc... more

Comedian, writer, musician and actor Eric Idle talks to John Wilson about his creative inf... more

Anselm Kiefer is one of the world’s greatest living artists. Born in Germany at the end of... more

Children’s writer and academic Katherine Rundell is the multi-million selling author of ad... more

Composer Steve Reich is one of the most influential musicians of modern times. In the 1960... more

Painter Jenny Saville, renowned for her large-scale portraits of fleshy, naked women, made... more

Composer Alan Menken is the winner of more Academy Awards in competitive categories than a... more

Gillian Anderson’s breakthrough television role in the sci-fi series The X Files made her ... more

Pete Townshend is the songwriter, guitarist and co-founder of The Who. The band first stor... more

Pianist James Rhodes was a relative latecomer to a professional music, and was 30 when he ... more

Since the late 1980s, Colombian artist Doris Salcedo has made work in response to conflict... more