Selling the dream
TV series dramatising the rise of department stores highlight a turning point in consumer culture, as entrepreneurs seduced female shoppers into becoming part of the bourgeois set
Exhibitions
Ellen Gallagher: Freud meets his interlocutor on a black planetSubscription
Tate Modern exhibition AxMe shows African American artist talking back to race and gender history
Saloua Raouda Choucair, Tate Modern, LondonSubscription
Shahidha Bari traces the development of Saloua Raouda Choucair, who, at 97, gets her first major museum exhibition
Culture: Eugène Boudin retrospectiveSubscription
A retrospective of the neglected artist to whom Claude Monet ‘owed everything’ is long overdue, writes Christoph Bode
Who’s the Pest? brings the insect world into close focusSubscription
Entomologist James Logan takes part in a Wellcome Collection series in celebration of the insect kingdom
Theatre & performance
The horrifying fascination of Titus AndronicusSubscription
A new production of Shakespeare’s brutal play continues to elicit disquieting questions about moral values
Naked lecturer looks for nude truthSubscription
Daniel Ploeger’s performance provokes minds through ‘body beautiful’
Trust exercises benevolence as actors enter new life stage
Matthew Reisz reports on the bursaries helping ex-thespians to pursue higher education goals
The Pilgrim's ProgressSubscription
John Bunyan’s masterwork, which influenced literature, politics and culture for generations, is startlingly modern in depicting a world of greed and inequality
























