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Welcome to Britain's first professionally produced arts critical website. theartsdesk.com is a new space for reviews and features about all the arts from live to recorded. Attendance at live music, galleries, theatres and other arts events has never been higher, and even seems to be increasing, but print arts coverage is in decline. We want to reflect the health of the arts scene and the potential of the web with a new kind of coverage.

Every day theartsdesk.com brings you arts writing and visuals of highest quality with the speed and scope of the net to reach out widely and dig down deeply. We aim to satisfy a new range of taste and interests not possible in newspapers, more personal, more individual, to include everyone with an internet connection in enjoyment of the arts, however remote they may be. Our coverage includes international culture and major regional arts, as well as all that London can offer.

We deliver first-class overnight reviews, remarkable features, comment and interviews, arts book reviews, ticket offers and chances for reader networking, while using the web to enrich the way you read arts coverage. We hope you enjoy exploring the site and become a regular visitor.

theartsdesk.com is a company of arts writers and photographers whose members are listed below:

• ANNE BILLSON is a writer and photographer. Her books include three horror novels, Suckers, Stiff Lips and The Ex, and monographs on The Thing and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She was the film critic of the Sunday Telegraph from 1993 to 2001 and now writes a regular column on cinema for the Guardian. She lives in Paris. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• TOM BIRCHENOUGH has been based in Moscow since 1991, from where he writes for a range of publications. He has contributed to Variety since 1993, and is the film critic for the main English-language publication in Russia, the Moscow Times. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• ISMENE BROWN was a musician and political journalist before becoming the Daily Telegraph's dance critic from 1994 to 2006. She regularly broadcasts on BBC Radio and TV on dance. She also writes on classical music and mime theatre (personal site www.ismeneb.com). This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• RUSS COFFEY directed the documentary Saving Sin City and has also written on serial killer Dennis Nilsen and on contemporary music for the Daily Telegraph and The Times. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• PETER CULSHAW is a music and arts broadcaster and writer for the Observer, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Songlines, among others in the UK and internationally. He is writing a music book for Serpent's Tail to be published in 2010 and has produced and compiled numerous CDs. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• BRUCE DESSAU specialises in music, television and comedy.  He writes regularly for The Times and The London Evening Standard and has written books on a number of major figures, including George Michael and Rowan Atkinson. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• JILLIAN EDELSTEIN photographed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa for the New York Times and many other stories for The New Yorker, Vogue and Vanity Fair among others. Her portraits were recently exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery. (personal site www.jillianedelstein.co.uk). This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• JUDITH FLANDERS is the author of A Circle of Sisters, a biography of Alice Kipling, Louisa Baldwin, Agnes Poynter and Georgiana Burne-Jones, The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed, and Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian England. Her new book, The Invention of Murder, will be published in January 2011. She writes on the arts for the Telegraph and the TLS. (personal site www.judithflanders.co.uk) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• GRAHAM FULLER is a British writer and editor based in New York since 1986. He was the executive editor at Interview magazine (1990-2000) and the Sunday arts editor at the New York Daily News (2000-2005). He has written on film for the New York Times, New York Observer, all the British broadsheets, Sight and Sound, Film Comment and Rolling Stone. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• GERARD GILBERT has been a television critic and feature writer for the Independent since 1994. He has also written about TV and cinema for Time Out, The New Statesman and Radio Times. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• RYAN GILBEY was named Reviewer of the Year in the 2007 Press Gazette Magazine Awards. He is the film critic of the New Statesman and also contributes to the Guardian and Sunday Times. He is the author of It Don’t Worry Me, about the American cinema in the 1970s, and a study of Groundhog Day in the BFI Modern Classics series.
• THOMAS H GREEN writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph, Mixmag, Q and others. He is editor of www.beatmag.net. Old raver, still occasionally to be found in nightclubs as dawn approaches. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• FISUN GÜNER writes regularly on visual arts for Metro and the New Statesman. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• MARK HUDSON is the author of Titian, the Last Days. He writes on art and music for the Daily Telegraph, the Mail on Sunday and The Observer. His other books include the award-winning Our Grandmothers' Drums, Coming Back Brockens and The Music in my Head. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• ROGER HUTCHINGS is a world-renowned photographer long associated with The Observer, for whom he photographed war and news assignments, and more recently collaborated with fashion designer Giorgio Armani on his book Armani Backstage (personal site www.rogerhutchings.com). This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• MARK IRVING has written on the visual arts, design and architecture for the Independent on Sunday, The Times, Financial Times, Guardian, Domus, and Blueprint. He has written and presented arts documentaries on UK television and is author of Porn?, Lofts and Different Sames. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• SHEILA JOHNSTON worked on the launch of the Independent, where she was a writer-editor and film critic for ten years. She has written on cinema for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, The Times, Sight and Sound, Guardian, Libération, Interview and New York Daily News, among other places. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• HOLLY KYTE was formerly the Arts & Life Editor of online magazine The First Post, and is a writer and editor specialising in books and photography. She writes regular reviews for The Sunday Telegraph and the Times Literary Supplement, and features for fashion magazine Rococo. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• VERONICA LEE is an award-winning writer and critic who contributes on theatre and comedy to the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Observer and London Evening Standard. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• CHARLOTTE MACMILLAN is a London-based photographer specialising in portraiture and theatre photography.  She has exhibited at the Royal Opera House and City Hall and has been a regular contributor to the Telegraph Magazine (personal site www.charlottemacmillan.com). This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• HOWARD MALE has written on music for the Independent, Songlines, The Word and other publications. He is also a musician and has just completed his first novel, Etc Etc Amen. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• SAM MARLOWE is a freelance arts journalist and regular theatre critic for The Times and Time Out. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• JOE MUGGS writes regularly for The Word, Wire and Mixmag, specialising in electronic music and the anything-but-grey areas where genres and media dissolve into one another. (personal site veryverymuch.com) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• DAVID NICE, formerly a music critic for the Guardian and Sunday Correspondent, and a regular BBC music broadcaster, has written books on Elgar, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky and the history of opera, and is currently working on the second volume of his Prokofiev biography for Yale University Press (personal site www.davidnice.blogspot.com). This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• MARK PAPPENHEIM was arts editor and music critic of the Independent and has written on music for the Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, Daily Express, BBC Music Magazine, Classic FM Magazine and Opera magazine among others. He has been editorial consultant to the BBC Proms since 1998 and edited programmes for Glyndebourne, WNO, the Barbican and the Brighton Festival. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• PETER QUINN has written on classical music and jazz for Tempo, Jazzwise, The Times Literary Supplement, BBC Music Magazine and International Record Review, among others. His performing experience runs the gamut from John Cage at the Barbican to jazz fusion at Ronnie Scott’s to traditional Irish music at the BBC Proms. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• JAMES RAMPTON writes on television and comedy for the Daily Telegraph, Independent, The Times and The Scotsman. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• JASPER REES has written about the arts, books, the media and sport for many broadsheets and magazines. He currently writes for the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, The Times and Intelligent Life. In the 1990s he also wrote about football for The Independent on Sunday. He is the biographer of Arsène Wenger, the author of I Found My Horn and co-author of the play of the same name (personal site www.ifoundmyhorn.co.uk). He is currently writing a book about Wales. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• GRAHAM RICKSON, who writes on classical music, lives in Leeds, where he works in primary schools as a languages and music specialist. He is currently on a crusade to promote the ukulele as a school instrument. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• ROBERT SANDALL, a presenter of BBC Radio 3's Mixing It and formerly the Sunday Times rock critic, also wrote on contemporary music for the Daily Telegraph, The Times and Sunday Times.
• EDWARD SECKERSON is a writer and broadcaster. A one-time actor and musician, he is currently Chief Classical Music Critic for the Independent. He wrote and presented the long-running BBC Radio 3 series Stage and Screen and has been on Gramophone magazine's reviewing panel for many years. (personal site www.edwardseckerson.biz). This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• ALEKS SIERZ is author of In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today, co-editor of theatreVOICE website, and works as a journalist, broadcaster and theatre critic at large (personal site www.inyerface-theatre.com). This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• A S H SMYTH lives in Colombo, where he is an arts critic for the (SL) Sunday Times. He has written on music and the arts for The First Post, Oxford Times, Spectator, Music Teacher, Early Music Today and Stop Smiling magazine. He is the co-author (with Richard Suart) of They'd None of 'Em Be Missed, a history of W S Gilbert's "Little List". This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• JOSH SPERO is the senior editor and website editor of Spear's magazine. He also writes on theatre and the visual arts for the Guardian and Whitaker's Almanack. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• SUE STEWARD is a writer and broadcaster on world and fringe music and photography for the Telegraph, Observer, Guardian, BBC, Songlines, and British Journal of Photography. She is the author of Salsa - Musical Heartbeat of Latin America
• ADAM SWEETING, former features editor of Melody Maker, has written on rock, classical music and television for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, Independent on Sunday, Uncut, Classic FM and Gramophone, and on motor-racing for Motorsport. He co-founded The Virtual Television Company, which made Mr Rock'n'Roll (Channel 4) and Pavarotti: The Last Tenor (BBC2 Arena). This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• GRAEME THOMSON has written extensively on popular culture for, among others, the Guardian, Observer, New Statesman, The Word, Uncut, Time Out and the Herald. His books include Complicated Shadows, a biography of Elvis Costello, and I Shot a Man in Reno, a widely acclaimed history of death music. His biography of Kate Bush will be published later in 2010. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• IGOR TORONYI-LALIC writes on opera, classical music and the arts for The Times, Sunday Telegraph, Spectator, Opera and Opera Now. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• STEPHEN WALSH is a former Observer music critic and a regular contributor to The Times, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Independent and the BBC. He is the author of a major biography of Stravinsky and other books on Stravinsky, Bartók and Schumann. He holds a chair in music at Cardiff University. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• WILLIAM WARD has lived between London and Rome for 30 years, writing and broadcasting in Italian and English as a political analyst and cultural commentator. He is author of Getting it Right in Italy and wrote and presented La Mia Italia on BBC Radio 4. He is London correspondent of Il Foglio and Panorama. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• HILARY WHITNEY has written on theatre and film for the Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph and Financial Times, and has been a judge for the London Fringe Theatre Awards. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• JONATHAN WIKELEY is the editor of Early Music Today and an editor of Piano magazine and The Singer. He also writes for Classical Music, Music Teacher, Opera Now and Choir and Organ. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• MATT WOLF is London theatre critic of the International Herald Tribune (on the net at nytimes.com) and London correspondent for the broadway.com website; he spent 21 years as London arts and theatre critic for the Associated Press and over 13 years as Variety's UK critic. In 2009 he joined the judging panel of the Evening Standard Theatre Awards. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• JAMES WOODALL has been a regular theatre and dance critic for the Financial Times, and a contributor to The Economist's "More Intelligent Life". His books include a biography of Jorge Luis Borges and an account of musical adventures in Brazil. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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