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In Focus: A show that uses Degas, Picasso and Cezanne to warn us about the post-Brexit world


Paul Cezanne s Les Grand Baigneurs. Courtesy of the Pallant Gallery.
Credit: Cezanne / Pallant Gallery
A pre-lockdown trip to ‘Degas to Picasso: International Modern Masters’ at the Pallant House Gallery leaves you feeling that British Modernism isn’t easy to pigeonhole  not now, and not a century ago. That s the feeling of Charles Darwent after viewing a show that epitomises an international movement.
This winter’s show at Pallant House Gallery is both much as you’d expect from its name and rather less so. Expected, because it includes works by the usual suspects of International Modernism Matisse, Picasso, Paul Klee and so on and unexpected, because of where it is. ....

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Feline groovy: cats in classical music – 10 of the best


Cat-erwauling. Quirijn de Lang as Tom Cat and Wallis Giunta as the Child in Opera North’s staging of L’Enfant et Les Sortilèges by Ravel.
Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian
Is there a choral singer anywhere who doesn’t know Christopher Smart’s cat, Jeoffry? Smart’s feline companion is the subject of 74 enchanting lines of his visionary poem Jubilate Agno (1759-63), set to music by Benjamin Britten in his cantata Rejoice in the Lamb. Smart’s poem was written in an asylum where he had been incarcerated – for mania – with only Jeoffry for company.
This real-life feline is the subject of my book, Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat, in which I wanted to capture how a cat could be both solace and muse to the creative artist. ....

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