My father’s great escape

Young artists take the PPE out of Boris’s letter

Once more with felines

Looted: vroom with a view

Gallery thief who stole a painter’s heart

Michael White’s classical & jazz news: London Song Festival; Bluebeard’s Castle; Barbican; Quartet for the End of Time

Shhh! Statue of Wollstonecraft to be unveiled

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: I Put A Spell On You; Clever Cakes; Private Peaceful; Psychodrama

Jenny Diski: look at it this way…

The secret life of Ayn Rand

Michael White’s classical & jazz news: St John’s Smith Square; Bloomsbury Festival; Sara Dowling

Grooves: Everyman/Doc ’n’ Roll festivals; Save our venues!; Richard Dawson; Andrew Ashong

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: Grief is the Thing with Feathers; The Snail and the Whale; Mr Shadow; Uncle Vanya

Author mourns death of the arts

Young, gifted, broke, but now recalled

From coal to cool

Maverick Molly outfoxes conservative America

Fusion Confidential: the scientist and the soprano

How the west was won