Eurofile

As Russia bombs Ukraine’s cultural sites, the powerful work in the capital’s Biennial is scattered across Europe

The withering contempt Christopher Eccleston's Scrooge has for the poor and homeless hits particularly hard this year

When I was a kid, allotments were a kind of cliche: strictly for old-mannish types to potter around in. Not any more

There was no other with his extraordinary improvising in the medium

Vast, desolate and magically odd – what is it about Iceland that makes musicians so desperate to record there?

In recent years we have been giving sprouts a bit more love

Dziga Vertov’s film changed cinema and outlasted the USSR – now it’s raising awareness of Ukraine’s fight

An anniversary year has featured as many scorching takedowns of Picasso’s character as it has paeans to his genius

The former Tory culture secretary and Boris Johnson superfan has written an astoundingly bad book

Small islands have evolved vocabularies based on topography – including one place where you can go ‘east’ while heading west

The first recorded purchase of Shakespeare’s collected works came 400 years ago – and the compendium soon crossed into Europe

A walk in the footsteps of Philip Kerr’s fictional detective, who cracked cases and heads in Nazi-era and cold war Berlin

A good roast potato is incomparable and, luckily, the rest of Europe is in agreement

English has a number of words borrowed from Urdu-Hindi, many of which arrived when British Indian Army soldiers returned to ‘Blighty’

Malle’s unique approach to cinema meant he was always on the hunt for ways to freshen things up, no matter the risk

Will greater and digitised access to our history result in a more enriched cultural future?

A new book by photographer Kevin Cummins captures the ghost of the Thin White Duke in the German city he once called home

Five weeks on the island in the late 19th century changed the artist’s perspective for ever

This Joaquin Phoenix epic fails to nail its big idea, or the motivation of its subject

The Canadian author only writes one book each decade. But her latest novel, Held, shows why it’s worth the wait

Celebrating a rediscovery of the Norwegian realist who used colour combinations ‘like chords sounding in perfect harmony’

The gaping hole in the UK pizza market is New York-style slices. Might it be something in the water?

A German’s documentary about an end-of-the-pier show in Norfolk might be the best movie yet about Brexit

The adventures of one carpenter and several British soldiers helped English become the native language on two isolated islands

The blame for the end of a glorious imperial story cannot be laid solely at his feet, but the longer he lived the more anachronistic his rule became

To hold an old tin – many of which have pleasingly haptic qualities – is to feel one’s own hands gloved by ancient skin

The American actor's solo show is eloquent - if sometimes self-indulgent

Backstairs Billy captures the charm of an eccentric keeper of royal secrets

Why twisty French thriller Anatomy of a Fall is tipped to win the Best Picture Oscar

Jens Haaning’s fans call the stunt a daring conceptual piece of satire. However, a Danish court says it’s a crime

He wrote three operas with Mozart and ended up working at a grocers in New York City: meet Lorenzo da Ponte

Richard Ansett’s photograph of the artist at Beachy Head sums up Brexit in a single shot