Lady Gaga: Artpop – review

There's certainly some decent pop on Lady Gaga's new album – but the 'art' part is rather harder to discern, writes Alexis Petridis

David Bowie is – review

The V&A's riotously cluttered and pleasantly bewildering show attempts to pin down one of the most intriguing and elusive figures in popular culture, writes Peter Conrad

The Long Count – review

This bizarre, semi-operatic production was greated with tentative, baffled but warm applause, which seems about right, writes John Lewis

The Miners’ Hymn

Durham CathedralIt took an outsider's eye to put the miners' strike in perspective – part of the audio-visual collaboration that was the centrepiece at the Durham Miners' Gala, writes Alfred Hickling

Bill Fontana

Sage, GatesheadJazz musicians Tim Garland and Asaf Sirkis relished the opportunity to jam with a bridge and a lighthouse in Bill Fontana's experimental sound creation, writes Alfred Hickling

Piotr Anderszewski/Zaha Hadid

Classical review:If Hadid were to create a new space for the reinterpretation of Bach, she should have designed a dance-floor, says Alfred Hickling