WHILE City of Culture status attracts big names to perform in front of sell-out audiences, actual participation in artistic creativity brings joy ...

On his 90th birthday, we remember Derren Nesbitt’s scene-stealing six-and-a-half minutes as Sturmbannführer von Hapen in the Richard Burton-Clint Eastwood action classic Where Eagles Dare.

Now, it is up to him to complete Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The Mastaba in the Abu Dhabi desert. First conceived in 1977, ...