Culture Digest
Rembrandt: Britain’s Discovery of the Master
This major exhibition puts works by the Dutch painter alongside those Brits who he influenced so much, including Hogarth, Reynolds, Raeburn, Bellany, and Auerbach.
7 July to 14 October, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
Naseer Shamma Quartet: Spirits
The world’s leading players of the tabla, Flamenco guitar, oud and sitar join together to bridge their unique musical traditions for an evening. It will be a truly boundary-breaking performance directed by Shamma, a UNESCO Artist for Peace.
11 July, Barbican Centre, London
Barry Humphries’ Weimar Cabaret
Barry Humphries, perhaps better known as his ageless alter-ego Dame Edna Everage, has helped put together this enticing programme of cabaret entertainment from Berlin in the 20s and 30s. Meow Meow joins him to give these forgotten songs of debauchery an outing.
11-29 July, Barbican Centre, London
Don Giovanni
A chance to see the Royal Opera House’s production of this classic Mozart/Da Ponte masterpiece from the comfort of your local cinema. Es Devlin gas designed the set, Kaspar Holten directs, and Marc Minkowski conducts.
12 July, selected cinemas nationwide
Carducci String Quartet
This Anglo-Irish Quartet pairs two works by Haydn (Op. 17, No. 1 and Op. 50, No. 2 by Béla Bartók’s brooding, funereal String Quartet No. 2, which was given its premiere 100 years ago in Budapest.
Pity
Sam Pritchard directs the ever-experimental Rory Mullarkey’s second play for the Royal Court. His latest state-of-the-nation takes a seemingly normal day in market square. Atrocities quickly ensue.
12 July – 11 August, Royal Court, London
Patrick Heron
Tate St Ives has just won ArtFund’s gallery of the year and it’s £100,000 prize, so go and revel with them and see this major retrospective while you’re there. It displays Heron’s work from the 1940s onwards, giving a broad view of his development as an abstract painter not afraid of bold colours.
Until 30 September, Tate St Ives, Cornwall
Frieze Sculpture 2018
John Baldessari, Tracey Emin, Barry Flanagan, Monika Sosnowska, and Dan Graham are amongst the 25 contributors to this year’s summer exhibition, which includes 15 new works, with plenty of messages about Mother Nature and the animal kingdom.