Eisenberg imbibes stage confidence from mother

Hollywood actor Jesse Eisenberg, who plays a magician in forthcoming film "Now You See My", says he imbibed the confidence to perform from his talented mother. "My mother was like a hippy clown. She did folk songs at children parties. She was like a great performer and I grew up in a house of somebody who was like a confident performer. She was really great in front of an audience and my ...

Viktor Ullmanns opera written in Nazi concentration camp revived in Berlin

Viktor Ullmann wrote The Emperor from Atlantis while at the Theresienstadt concentration camp, in what is now the Czech Republic. Photograph: Radek ...

The London art audit how well are female artists represented

How likely are you to see a piece of art in a London gallery created by a woman? An art audit by the East London Fawcett Group has attempted to find ...

Women in art why are all the great artists men

An audit of the art world shows that every artist in the top 100 auction sales last year was a man, and just 8% of public art in central London was created by women. But things are ...

Jordan Baseman Haroon Mizra Free Range the weeks art shows in pictures

From Haroon Mizra's sonic sculptures in Wakefield to Jordan Baseman's studies of death in London, Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark find out what's happening in art around the ...