Marianela Núñez in Swan Lake

Marianela Núñez in Swan Lake, Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, February 2015 (Photograph by Alice Pennefather) - Nuñez confirmed her indisputable supremacy as the ideal 21st century interpreter of the classic. Her rendition of Odette’s sadness and fear is something that should be recorded for posterity. So is the powerfully elegant display of bravura of her Odile, even though she too played a tad too much with the seduction mime…

Woman Reading

Jean Metzinger (French, 1883-1956) - Woman Reading, c.1930 (Gouache on paper) - “Yet, style, in the sense of his own special way of handling form and color, remained for Metzinger the determining factor, something imposed on his subjects to give them their special pictorial character. His sweet, rich colour… was unashamedly artificial, and is itself symptomatic of the fact that his return to lucid representation did not mean a return to nature approached naturalistically…” – Christopher Green

Michelle Williams

With plenty of awards-season buzz surrounding her new film, Manchester By The Sea, Michelle Williams is spending red-carpet time with co-star Casey Affleck – but off screen, the actress revealed, she’s not holding out for a romantic Hollywood ending...